Was the Good Friday cross  a bitter or sweet cup for Jesus? Enjoying a sweet cup of beverage/drink always energises or refreshes us but not a bitter cup! It’s tough to appreciate or accept a bitter cup of anything. But have you had both a bitter, sweet taste together? I’m sure it won’t be so tasty or relishing even to the most enduring spirit.

But oh yes, Jesus Christ experienced this same, most queer feeling on Good Friday. He underwent this bitter but sweet experience when He thought about you and me, friends! He did this to grant us eternal peace and happiness, bearing all our sins on the cross of Calvary about 2000 years ago.

The bitter cup : Jesus’s suffering on the cross on a ‘ Good Friday ‘

Yes, friends,
– His cup was overflowing with blood dripping from head to toe
-Cup overflowed with spit on His soft and radiant cheeks
-Body beaten and crushed, shredded beyond recognition back whipped, mirroring the agonizing path to Christ’s death and our redemption.
-Hands and legs pierced
-Forehead pierced and bruised with a crown of thorns!

All these were utterly bitter for Jesus, but He drank it all till the last drop as though it was sweet as He was doing His Father’s will, not His when He thought about each one of us.

The sweet redemption

The physical, mental agony and anguish- He had all. The day of the brutal crucifixion of the most Holy God who loved His creation is thus can be called a bitter or Sad Friday.
But for each one of us, it has become a sweet or Good Friday because He bore all the pain, so we have the assurance that God “will never leave or forsake us” (Bible-Hebrew 13:5). Jesus’ sufferings gave us freedom from the bondage of all our sins so that we will never have to experience separation from the love of God. (Romans 8:39)

Those who believe that Jesus Christ had endured all these sufferings for their sake and accept Him as their Lord and Savior will be eternally saved from all sins.