From Medium: What Lamentations Can Teach Us About Good Friday

Reading Lamentations gives us a glimpse at what our Savior suffered on our behalf.Good Friday is a day like no other. It commemorates the most heinous and most precious event of history: the crucifixion of Jesus. Its heinousness relates to the murder of the perfect, sinless Son of God. Its preciousness relates to our redemption from sin, enabling us to enter into a right relationship with God. Jesus bore the wrath that was due to us, taking on our hell so we can have his heaven. “Precious” might be too light of a word to describe the glorious reality that we have based on what Jesus accomplished on our behalf.Many New Testament passages descr...