Lent - Day Thirty Nine - Good Friday

Entry of the Bride by Martin Van Meytens.
Schonbrunn, Vienna

"The Lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: 

Say to Daughter Zion, See, your Saviour comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him." Isaiah 62 verse 11

12 To me, 'Good' and 'God' are closely aligned.  In Western  history the two have often conflated. In Middlemarch Eliot compares the 'Good' priest and the 'God' priest, and the 'Good' certainly wins out.

(In the East God is 'good' and 'bad with less polarised definitions.)

Van Meytens's picture illustrates how things should have been for Jesus.  There is an echo with the events of Palm Sunday.  But today (Good Friday) things are pretty much the opposite.  We believe that Good emanates from God, but the source of goodness is our focus, and exists even in the heart of 'darkness'.  

A quote from Watchman Nee- 

“Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.”

Question: Where do I see good happening around me?

Prayer:  May your kingdom come, and your will be done.