“Why did God even create man?” my daughter asked me yesterday. It reminded me of a similar question her older sister posed several years ago when a 19-year-old friend died in a car accident: “Why do we have to do this earth thing anyways, Mama?” She wasn’t wrestling with why it happened. Rather, she reasoned, if God knows who is going to heaven anyway (see Ephesians 1:4-6), why even make us come to earth where there is pain, suffering, and death?
Read MoreGood Friday. The day Jesus was cruelly crucified. For His followers, there was nothing good about it. Jesus was gone. It was finished. And they found themselves in the in-between. Without the hindsight of the resurrection, they only knew His death. What was it like for them? What were they thinking? What did they do?
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