Our Suffering Saviour on Good Friday

It seems it doesn't take long for it to be Easter once we've passed Christmas! And today we celebrate Good Friday and we are looking simply at why today is truly Good in this post. 

 Joni Tada Eareckson shared the following video. In it she  shares that the LORD Jesus in the gospels spoke four times more about hell than heaven - heaven is Jesus' wonderful home that He wants us all to have... and hell is to be shunned!

He knew all too well the horrors of it and He wants no-one to go there.

https://youtube.com/shorts/aahNMH5WXkw?si=ZMO_De-EuKI626Qc

So much so that He suffered and died on the cross on the first Good Friday for our sins. It was love, His love for us that kept Him on the cross, suffering the agony of death for  us. The greatest agony was being separated from His Heavenly Father when He bore our sins, when Jesus cried, "My God, My God Why has Thou forsaken Me?". And greatest blessing to us was when He cried, "It is finished!", and "He gave up the ghost." Then Salvation's work was truly done, finished. We cannot do anything else to gain it. We can never earn heaven by what we do. If we could, there would be no point to Jesus dying on the cross.  I think this verse on this card explains it.

Isaiah 12:2

... "God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD is my strength and my song; He also is become my salvation." Truly salvation bought on the first Good Friday with His cry, "It is finished." Yet foretold years before in books of prophecy like Isaiah. 

Now sharing some Aussie photos. As we look let us remember Christ is not only Saviour and King, but our Creator as well. 

Isaiah 40:28
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Well, thanks so much for popping over for a peek and a chat, I pray for God's blessing on you, wherever you  maybe. You might also like to pop over to my Christian blog post, too, here. It's totally different. 

Shaz in Oz.x 

 Linking up the card with the following Challenges:

1.Allsorts Challenge blog- Springtime or Anything goes. My card fits Springtime perfectly . I've used Lavinia stamps Meadow grass, Buttercups,  Poppies and Ferns. The bird stamp is a stampcapes and stamp verse is Our Daily Bread set 1. Disc. 

2. Word Art Wednesday here! 

3. NBUS Challenge Never Before Used Schtuff. The Lavinia stamps Buttercups and Meadow grass are NBUS 😀

4. And lastly Darnell's I.D.E.A.S challenge. Week 5 is Stencils and I used a moon stencil or sun, take your pick, on this inky card.