WHY GOOD FRIDAY IS A HAPPY DAY FOR CHRISTIANS?

WHY GOOD FRIDAY IS A HAPPY DAY FOR CHRISTIANS?

I was checking a video in Youtube, It is called "Mind Game - Lier  (S02E12)", It was basically a social experiment conducted by National Geographic. The host of the experiment is Mr. Barry Mcmanus (an ex-CIA investigator). In his experiment he chose 4 kids and keep them in a room alone with a beautiful chocolate cake and gave a condition not to touch or taste the cake. 15 minutes was given for each kid. By the end of the session there was something which attracted my interest. All those kids were around in the age of 3.

Once the given time was over, the investigator entered into the room and enquire whether they have tasted it or not. 3 out of 4 kid actually tasted the cake. But none of the kid accepted the truth that they have tasted it. The way they have acted and given the explanation was quite funny, if you get a chance check it in the internet.

But here is my concern, since they were kids

1. How do they know that they have to lie.
2. Who taught them to lie.
3. Couple of extraordinary acts like;

1. Fake stories.
2. Wipe the evidence.
3. Temptation.
4. Lie.
5. Distract the investigator from the truth.

So I questioned myself that there is some thing wrong with this human mind. Nobody taught anything bad to those kids, still their mind takes the decision towards wrong, not towards good. They could have admitted the truth because, they had 50/50 chance between good and evil. Without anybody direction, human mind goes towards evil decision. Though science gives lot of explanation. I wonder is that right?

For this I got the answer from the bible. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the garden of Eden, the lie (sin) entered into human mind. In other words, all the human mind started thinking towards evil. As all of us know,  sin is a crime which is not acceptable. If somebody commit crime, they are worthy to be punished. For example, murder someone is a crime, the criminal should be punished. In the same context, human minds are corrupted even before they know what is good and what is bad (as we seen in the previous experiment). The whole human race are the victims of sin. So everybody has to get punished. There is no exception. So are we gonna get punished?

As we have seen, all the criminals needs to be punished. But what if somebody accepts all our crimes on their-self and accept all our punishments as theirs. Who can take all punishments instead of us? we all are criminals right? not even a single human can take our punishment in this world because they themselves are worthy to be punished. So yes, I'm worthy to be punished.

But this point of time, God himself came into this world, commit no mistake and live a holy life. Accepted all out punishments on his name and gave his life (as a punishment for our sins) and died on the cross of carvery around 2000 years ago. Does that mean all our sins are gone? then why those kids are still telling lie? In John 3:16 it says "Whoever believes in him", that means, the price of our sin has been paid. But if you believe with your whole heart that a person paid his life for my sins, then the burden of sin and rebellion nature will automatically change.

Now how this post title and this story matches? A person died for our sins and made us free from the burden of sin. Right?, that particular day is called "GOOD FRIDAY". Basically we can call this day as "Freedom Day" from the sin, death, punishment and rebellion. So this freedom day we cannot celebrate as a sad day, we have to celebrate as a "Happy Day". The name of the person who died for us in the cross is "JESUS"

Let us think of his mercy and goodness and celebrate a wonderful "GOOD FRIDAY". May God blesses you!