Friday - The Right Time

Easter Friday

Crushed!  Smashed!  Over and done!  "What were we thinking?!?"  Those must have been some of the thoughts racing through the disciples minds on that "Good Friday."  I'm sure it seemed anything but good to those who loved Jesus as they literally ran for their lives.  What must it have been like to witness the last three years of their investment, now being drug away in chains?

Why Jesus?  Why now?  Because He was about to do something for us that neither they nor we have the capacity to do for ourselves.

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—  but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:6-8 (ESV) 

So when is the right time for us to follow Christ?  The moment we realize the price of our sin, we surrender ourselves - everything we have, everything we are, to the Lordship of Christ.  It is at that point for us, that it indeed becomes, Good Friday!