Today is the day that many across Christendom are commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus, although some say ‘celebrating’, which is somewhat confusing given what it actually means to be crucified versus what it meant in God’s plan.

To celebrate versus commemorate depends on your perspective.

We commemorate because it is the historical event, although most likely not the actual day, that Jesus was nailed to a cross for crimes against Rome and offenses made to the Jewish law.

The laws, both Roman and Jewish, cannot be dispute because Jesus, like the rest of the people, were all subject to it.

Jesus was innocent, we know that, but at the time it was more difficult to discern.

The laws of the Jews were sacred for thousands of years, and Jesus was a Jew that broke that law. He broke it intentionally to fulfill God’s plan for the Jews and for the rest of humanity.

Pontius Pilot, the governor of Judea, was merely doing his job.

God doesn’t make mistakes, as Jesus tells Pilot, he cannot do what His Father doesn’t will to happen, so it must be so.

We also commemorate the culmination of Jesus’s ministry and that he suffered for those beliefs and wouldn’t back down even to the end.

But can we say ‘celebrate’?

The crucifixion of a man for crimes he didn’t commit is a horrific thing to celebrate, but we know what it means. It’s the culmination of God’s plan on Earth, by means of Him becoming human, preaching His ways about love and warnings for the future, and dying to defeat The Enemies stronghold on humanity.

The people of the day, including the Apostles, didn’t know what the true meaning of it was.

We both commemorate and celebrate the glory of God and Jesus, who would soon be Christ.

In three days it would all make sense.

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