Today, if you are struggling in the aftermath of an abortion, there is good news.

Today, if you are struggling with guilt over paying for an abortion, or coercing a woman to have an abortion, or encouraging an abortion decision, there is good news.

Today, if you are wondering if you can really walk away from a job that you know is leading to the deaths of unborn children, there is good news.

Today, if you have failed to speak for the defenseless, there is good news.

Today, if you are liar, a thief, a mocker, or a hater, there is good news.

Today, if you are like me, there is good news.

Today, no matter who you are and what you have done, there is good news.

Today is Good Friday, a day so easily overlooked or marginalized on our busy schedules. Yet what this day commemorates is the turning point of all human history, the day when the only One who could pay the price for our sin willingly did so, not because he didn’t anguish over what was before Him, but because it was His Father’s will.

Who among us would be willing to be beaten, spit upon, scourged, crowned with thrones, stripped, laughed at, marched through the streets, nailed to a cross, and have insults hurled at us as our life drained away, struggling with excruciating pain at each new breath?

Who among us could take every sin of the world upon our shoulders – every abortion, every hateful word, every selfish thought, every lie, every abuse, every denial of God, every evil we can think of – and bear it to the point of crying out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Who among us would have the authority to say, “It is finished?”

Who among us? Not one.You may think you have gone too far. You may think you are worthless. You may even think you are fine the way you are and have no need for God.

The cross still remains.

Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus, fully man and fully God, took the full punishment of sin on the cross and made forgiveness possible for all who place their trust in Him alone. He is the only One who could. He is the only One who did. He is the One we remember on Good Friday.

There is good news today.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

-Mike Fichter, President and CEO of Indiana Right to Life