The BLB Blog

The official blog of Blue Letter Bible

Good Friday: A Prayer

Posted on April 20, 2011 Posted by Blue Letter Bible

O LORD, my God and Savior –

Mockery was a great ingredient to your woes.
Judas mocked You in the Garden;
the chief priests and scribes laughed you to scorn;
Herod set you at nought;
the servants and the soldiers jeered and harassed you with brutal insults;
Pilate and his guards ridiculed Your royalty, even though it was truth;
and on Your cross—where you bled through your hands, your feet, your brow—all sorts of horrid jests and hideous taunts were hurled at You.

Such ridicule is always hard to bear, but all the more when we are in intense agony.
And all the more when it is so heartless, so cruel, that it cuts us to the quick.

As I picture you hanging on Your cross, my great God and Savior crucified, I cannot bear the thought. Your frail and beaten Self was racked with anguish far beyond all mortal guess. A motley mob wagged their heads and thrusted out the lip in bitterest contempt and insult toward you, a suffering victim. So humble a Savior!

O Jesus, “despised and rejected of men,” “acquainted with grief and sorrow,” how could You die for men who treated You so ill, so poorly, so horridly? How? Herein is love so amazing, love divine, yes, love beyond degree! We, too, have despised You in the days of our own unregenerate state, and even since our new birth we have set the world on high in our hearts, and yet You bled to heal our wounds and died to give us life.

Oh, that we could set You on a glorious high throne in all men’s hearts! We would ring out Your praises over land and sea till men should as universally adore as once they did unanimously reject.

Your creatures wrong You, Oh sovereign LORD! And yet, Your grace comes down to us like a river from that Cross. You died and rose again that we might do the same. So we run to you, from the foot of that cross to the foot of Your throne, hearts bursting forth with thanksgiving and praise, “Oh God, take me! Like You there is no other! My life is purchased and Yours!”

(adapted from Charles H. Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening devotional)

Filed Under: Misc. Tagged With: crucifixion, good friday, jesus christ, morning and evening, prayer, spurgeon

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

About Blue Letter Bible

Blue Letter Bible offers some of the best online Bible study tools—free! Visit our main site blueletterbible.org. You can also find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Comments

  1. bill deem says

    April 20, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    Just received Trojan threat from this page.

Subscribe to Newsletter

Sign up to receive email updates and the latest Blue Letter Bible news!

PARTNER WITH THE BLB | (DISCLAIMER)

Other sites:

  • Blue Letter Bible
  • Blue Letter Bible Institute ('BLBi')

Comments Policy

  1. No registration is required to leave a comment.
  2. You may certainly ask follow-up questions.
  3. Please stay on topic. When unrelated comments get in the way of discussion, they will be deleted.
  4. We reserve the right to delete comments that we, at our discretion, find snarky, slanderous, trollish, or off-topic.
  5. Comments that are too long or contain many links may be held in moderation until an administrator approves.
  6. You grant us license to post your comments.
  7. Please be mindful of your words (Eph. 4:29; Matt. 12:37; James 1:19; James 1:26).
  8. Always exercise Christian charity (Col. 4:6; Rom. 12:10; Eph. 4:15, 25).

© Copyright 2012-2025 Blue Letter Bible · All Rights Reserved