I love Christian music. I sleep with ear buds and an iPhone playing K-Love. I was awake a good bit of the night last night and I noticed something about the lyrics. They are more Friday than Sunday lyrics.
By that I mean the songs are saying things like, “When you don’t move the mountains I need to move, I will trust you.” Titles like “How can it be?” “Trust in you.” “Chain Breaker” “I have this hope.” and “Forgiven.” Those aren’t Sunday songs. They don’t proclaim a victory won, but a fight in progress. Those are Friday songs. Those are lyrics that say that there is still a fight going on. There is still work to do. Sin is still significant, but there is hope. It’s still all about the blood. Unlike earlier in the week; however, there is a clear hope and an expectation of joy real soon.
Isn’t that what Friday is? It’s a day on which the weekend and relief shine close and bright, but there is still work to be done. There are still sacrifices to make. I suspect most successful folks make good use of Fridays. They don’t stop working on Thursday night.
This is Good Friday. There has been much written about why a day that memorializes torture and death “good.” It’s “good” because it reflects most days in the Christian era. There is hard work and blood and suffering. There are tests and struggles. There are also very real elements of hope and a peace that it’s going to all work out and that we will see the victory, that though unseen, has already been won.
Have a Good Friday, not just today or even every Friday, but every single day.
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