{"id":10779,"date":"2019-04-18T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/doinglifetogether\/?p=10779"},"modified":"2019-04-18T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:32:15","slug":"good-friday-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/doinglifetogether\/2019\/04\/good-friday-good.html","title":{"rendered":"Living Your Own Good Friday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10782\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/258\/2019\/04\/cross-3080144_1920-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"cross-3080144_1920\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/>Today is Good Friday and\u00a0some of us may feel as if\u00a0life is lived in a perpetual Good Friday mode. Like the movie, Groundhog Day, it seems we\u00a0are replaying the same bad day over and over, fighting despair and struggling. Disease, broken relationships, prodigal children\u2026the landscape looks bleak and can easily lead to despair.<\/p>\n<p>Good Friday reminds us that all our suffering and struggles will one day end. While life lived on Good Friday looks bleak, there is hope for a better day. Easter is coming! One day there will be no more tears, no death, no mourning or pain. All things will be made new.<\/p>\n<p>The darkness eventually gave way to light.\u00a0When it looks\u00a0like evil is winning, Easter reminds us that this is not true. Jesus triumphed over the grave. Death could not keep Him and He rose again! The enemy of our soul could not win!<\/p>\n<p>This season reminds us\u00a0to stay\u00a0hopeful. No matter how bleak the Good Friday of our life\u00a0seems, Easter is a confirmation that\u00a0one day disease will be erased, wrongs will be righted, and brokenness will be healed.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 39:7 tells\u00a0us on to rise above our circumstances that look despairing, \u201cMy hope is in Him,\u201d not circumstances or people. Psalm 119:147 says, \u201cI rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During\u00a0Good Friday seasons of our life, cry for help, but remember, our living God is our constant source of hope. He defeated the darkness. So Choose hope. \u00a0Refuse to give in to despair. \u201cLove never gives up, never loses faith, is always HOPEFUL, and endures every circumstance\u201d (1 Corinthians 13:7).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Good Friday and\u00a0some of us may feel as if\u00a0life is lived in a perpetual Good Friday mode. Like the movie, Groundhog Day, it seems we\u00a0are replaying the same bad day over and over, fighting despair and struggling. Disease, broken relationships, prodigal children\u2026the landscape looks bleak and can easily lead to despair. 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