These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Good Friday

Good Friday? Why do we call it thus?
A man was beaten, killed so raw.
Such shamefulness He bore for us
to bring us good in lasting awe.

Good Friday? A man upon a cross,
He suffered there in the breathless dark.
In awful pain, He bore my loss
before the world in shame so stark.

Good Friday? Ne'er had a man been wronged
to die in innocency so pure,
but ne'er before had guilty songed
to live in Bliss forever sure.

Good Friday? When is good so sad,
that awful souls get off scot-free,
and He, Who never has done bad
brought life, and love, and health to me?

Good Friday is of fairness naught.
The Son of God a criminal?
Eternal life for me He bought.
His perfect life paid the debt in full.

Good Friday was for God, great bad,
yet also was for God, great good.
The Father took all that He had
to make Him sons of ones so rude.

Good Friday in one moment made
the rift be gone, that Sin once tore.
The Son to Father full obeyed,
that Sin be naught forevermore.

Good Friday is the dividing line
between eternal bad and good.
To rest my debt on Him I'm fine.
To see despite, no lasting food.

Great Aslan lay 'neath witching knife,
"He's dead, no more to rise, again."
So thought the fiend of lasting strife,
the one, who killed us in our sin.

Good Friday in the victory bad
became great good in the third day's sun.
The world of Sin danced joyous mad
until new life began His run.

Good Friday was not surface good.
He died for wrongs He had not done.
The Blessed Savior on the wood
made me a righteous man and son.

Good Friday is great good for me.
It is great good for Him as well.
His stripes and resurrection free
the ones, so lost and bound for Hell.

Good Friday can be good for you
if you let Him give you His Gift.
The days of lostness can be through
if in Christ's Hands your soul be lift.

Good Friday was transacted best
when lasting Good did pay for Sin.
He vanquished ev'ry earthly test
to save dear souls in lasting Win.

Good Friday's Balance has been met
as Judgment's Wrath sees Mercy and Grace.
Salvation given is always let
by Smiling Good upon His Face.

by Jay O’Toole
on April 15th, 2022