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Good Friday: Christians worldwide reflect on message
Like Jesus on the cross, who doubted God’s presence yet cried for divine intervention, “we should not be afraid to speak out, and lament when we feel abandoned by God,” she noted.
Christians are celebrating Good Friday around the world and with the message of Jesus Christ’s love who died on the cross to redeem the souls of men.
In the message of Good Friday for Christians of all denominations, LWF Vice-President for the Nordic Countries, Rev. Dr Arnfríður Guðmundsdóttir, said like Jesus on the cross, our cries for divine intervention affirm our trust in God no matter what.
The message of Good Friday is the one that reminds Christains and mankind of the love of God towards His people by giving His only begotten Son to sinners.
Good Friday as part of the Holy Week demonstrates the “truly human experience of anguish and fear of being left alone in the most desperate moment” becoming an invitation to admit “our helplessness and need for God’s rescue.”
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Vice-President Rev. Dr Arnfríður Guðmundsdóttir conveyed this message on Good Friday, as she invited Christians to affirm their trust in God.
Guðmundsdóttir, a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland, highlights Luther’s reference to “‘a kind father who cares for us so that no evil may befall us,’” and the importance of expressing pain and despair when facing God’s silence and absence instead of help and comfort.
Like Jesus on the cross, who doubted God’s presence yet cried for divine intervention, “we should not be afraid to speak out, and lament when we feel abandoned by God,” she noted.
“We are at the same time affirming our trust in God who cares for us no matter what,” she added.
In the light of Good Friday, the important message Christians should share to the world is the agape love of God who conquers all the works and activities of the devil and his cohorts.
Shalom.
