Tomorrow we celebrate Good Friday, the day God appointed before creation that His beloved Son would pay the price for a humanity He hadn’t even created yet.  From all eternity He had this plan in mind.  It pleased Him to crush His Son on our behalf. The depths of this really can’t be fully understood, but I’m glad with all my soul it is the truth.

Listen to the glorious words of Paul as you meditate on His goodness this morning:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. (Ephesians 1:3-14)

For that reason we have 10,000 reasons to worship our great God and Savior. Enjoy some worship time with Matt Redman’s song today as you contemplate with awe and reverence the lengths to which He went to pluck you from the grave.