We’re lucky Lafayette and south Louisiana to have some stunning climate peppered into what can usually be a stormy forecast this time of 12 months. Such is the case for Good Friday 2024. The climate people at KATC inform me that we will anticipate this spectacular climate by means of Easter.

Yearly on Palm Sunday, the story of Jesus’ Ardour takes my breath away. That sensation solely intensifies on Good Friday.

I’ve lived in south Louisiana my entire life. If you understand something about our little slice of God’s nation, you understand that roughly half of our Christian inhabitants is Catholic. I used to be lucky sufficient to be raised by religious Catholic mother and father who taught me extra than simply the proper phrases to say throughout Mass and find out how to genuflect and make the signal of the cross accurately.

My mother weaved Jesus into all the things. As a teen, I admit that may very well be annoying. We have been required to go to Sunday mass at our church parish in Crowley, Louisiana. We mentioned nightly prayers collectively. We did all of the issues.

Extra importantly, my mother has lived as she preached. Her actions have been louder than any phrases she might have spoken. And I heard it, fortunately.

As Christians, it is vital for us to share that message. We should not be boastful or condescending with it. We should not choose somebody for the best way they worship or consider. We should always, nevertheless, stand able to not simply testify to His love however to be a testomony of His love.

And that may be a tall order.

It isn’t straightforward to again up our beliefs with the actions to assist them, nevertheless it’s what He asks of us:

¹⁴ What does it revenue, my brethren, if somebody says he has religion however doesn’t have works? Can religion save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is bare and destitute of each day meals, ¹⁶ and one in all you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and crammed,” however you don’t give them the issues that are wanted for the physique, what does it revenue? ¹⁷ Thus additionally religion by itself, if it doesn’t have works, is lifeless. (KJV James 2:14-17)

Each Good Friday, this Louisiana lady feels a weight. I am positive each Christian who really believes within the resurrection energy of Jesus feels that very same heaviness. It is arduous to not if you understand the story of his Ardour.

At this time, Good Friday 2024, I used to be interested by Jesus’ torture and crucifixion. As they generally do, components of the story of His Ardour hit me totally different. It was like sure components of the story have been illuminated much more brightly.

And it took my breath away.

I made a decision to share my story by way of video with my Fb associates as a result of gentle and bundle and all. The necessity to take action was a compulsion coming from a spot in my little Crowley coronary heart that could not be denied.

Whether or not you watch it or not, regardless of the way you consider or the way you worship, we’ll all be capable of breathe once more on Sunday. On Good Friday, it’s completed. On Easter Sunday, we start anew.

There cannot be an Easter Sunday with out a Good Friday.