All my life I have struggled with the concept of calling this day of Jesus’ arrest and crucifixion as “good.” What could possibly be good about Jesus being arrested, tried, convicted, and crucified? How can we call this feast day “good”?

Yet, there is a reassurance for us in these words written to the Hebrew Christians. Much as the prophet Jeremiah told the Jewish people that God’s law would be inscribed on their hearts, just as it was once inscribed by God’s own hand on stone tablets, this letter reminds us that God’s law is inscribed on our hearts through the living out of the law by Jesus. God’s will lives in us through the life, ministry, and sacrifice of Jesus. We know it, we feel it, we practice this, our faith, through the leadership of Jesus. This is good. The arrest, trial, sentenc…