Don’t Skip Friday

Today is March 31, 2010 ~ the last day of March! April is just right around the corner… and how I love this time of Year and Spring! Everything is New Again – as we celebrate the Resurrection of our Saviour, Jesus! We are Easter people. That is good and proper. The Resurrection of Christ changes everything, but Friday comes before Sunday. We tend to skip over the Passion and Death and go right to the Resurrection. That’s a mistake. The Glory of Easter morning is more real if we have focused on the events of Thursday through Friday. 

We tend to look for distractions on Good Friday. In Acadiana more crawfish are boiled on Good Friday than any other day of the year. I started the morning with the idea that I would suggest that we watch the Passion of the Christ on television on Friday; but I could find no showings on the hundreds of channels on cable this weekend. You can watch the Passion of the Christ on line. But isn’t it strange that the most popular movie on the subject isn’t broadcast during the entire Easter weekend? On the positive side,  Jesus of Nazareth  airs today and several more times throughout this Easter Week on TBN … plus The Ten Commandments airs on Saturday night at 6 p.m. on ABC. Interesting programing, not about Easter but a classic.

Let’s do something to focus on Christ before Sunday. We can wear a cross, proudly and prominently. We can attend Maundy Thursday service. We can start a discussion about Easter that focues on something beside bunnies, eggs or crawfish, especially with young ones.