Today's readings are Psalm 22.12-21, Proverbs 25.1-22, and John 19.23-42.
Psalm 22, which is very frequently read in the Divine Services around Good Friday, serves as a detailed prophecy of the crucifixion of Christ. We see in today's readings how Jesus, in his death, fulfilled the prophecies about him. Not only did Jesus fulfill prophecies, though, so did the soldiers who crucified him, though they were almost certainly unaware of the prophecies.
Our God is the kind of God who moves people to do his will even without their knowledge. He is able to do anything he desires. And we see in the death of Christ that God's desire is that Jesus should die for our sins, the just for the unjust. Can the death of Jesus actually serve as an atonement for my sin? It most certainly can, because God has proclaimed it to be so. When we Jesus doing something in Scripture, let us look carefully and see what God has proclaimed that action to accomplish. We can be assured that it did not happen by some accident which has not purpose in God's kingdom. We may not always see the purpose, but God is most certainly accomplishing his good will.
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