Good Friday

The moment of the Crucifixion shows us our true selves, in that left to ourselves, we see only ourselves. We cried out for Him to save Himself.  He cried out to save us.  We thought only in terms of saving one's self.  We understood so little of the reality of love; that only after looking out from the self, can one begin to be saved.  Only upon the Cross with Him can we look out upon others, instead of on ourselves.  We taunted Him to come down. He challenges us to take up. In what could we believe, if He had descended from the Cross?  In failure?  In selfishness?  We show ourselves ready only to believe in sin, in the triumph of evil over good.  If God gave in to sin, then we would believe in Him, and that means in truth only in ourselves.  When we stood before the Cross, we showed how little we really trusted in God, even when we have lived our whole lives in supposed obedience to Him.  Only after mounting the Cross can we trust in God, for the Cross is trust, just as it is love.