Well, this most definitely ranks as the strangest Good Friday I have ever spent (I managed to not be in the Merchant Navy for a Good Friday otherwise that might well have surpassed it!).
No going to church, no meeting with brothers and sisters in Christ, no singing hymns of praise in the company of the saints, no celebration of the Lord’s Supper – so different from other years.
And yet in one regard it was exactly the same – that which we remembered, that which we praised God for, that which we looked back on was completely the same!
Praise God for the objective truth of scripture. Praise God that while our faith is tested by the circumstances that we go through in life, the foundation for that faith – the truth on which it stands is factual and historical, and we can have absolute confidence in it.
When Paul (under direction of Holy Spirit) writes:
Rom 10:9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
1 Thess 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
That which we are called to believe in has already happened, and because it is recorded in the inerrant, infallible Word of God we know it is certain.
Friend, in these uncertain times in which we live, isn’t it reassuring to know that our faith rests in the unchanging, certain, Word of God!