Hi how are you all today? I am well and have had a mostly relaxing time over Easter. The church services I attended were great and really made me ponder again the sacrifice Jesus made for me. I don’t think we will fully understand the depths until we get to heaven. How was your Easter?
In this blog I want to ponder on and discuss the day between. The day between I am referring to is Easter Saturday- the day between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. I want to challenge us in the fact that this is where we live most of our lives.
Good Friday is the day of sacrifice and death. For Jesus, it cost Him everything that day. In our lives that day or time in our lives is where we sacrifice or die to ourselves- our wants and desires. It is the time of salvation where we say yes to Jesus and no to the world.
But in our every day lives, it is where we say yes to the promises of Jesus and no to our hurts and selfish desires. It is the time we make a decision to take up our cross and follow Him.
Being a parent isn’t easy but I find myself more and more needing to find the promises of God for my children and holding on to them even though it costs me something. It costs me time, battling to stay in faith and being dead to the circumstances surrounding me.
This is where Saturday comes in. On that Saturday or Sabbath day, the disciples probably thought all hope was lost. They would never again see the miracles, hear His teaching and encouragement and have the experience of walking with Him. In their grief and despair they forgot what He told them. Isn’t this where we live daily?
We live between the promises of God in the Bible and the fulfilment of those promises in the resurrection. This is why faith is important. It anchors us to the promise but gives hope for its resurrection. This is why it’s impossible to please God without it. If we didn’t have faith we wouldn’t be trusting in the Word. Who is the Word anyway? It is Jesus. So without faith in our lives there is no Jesus. This is a riveting thought.
So how do we live that day between really well? We hold onto the promises in the Word of God for us without doubting. We operate in the love of God so our faith doesn’t fail. We work out or hold onto our salvation daily even when it feels like all hell is breaking loose around us. We trust more in the Bible than we do in the circumstances around us. We live differently than the disciples did on that Saturday.
We don’t lose hope and we don’t let go of the Word of God. If we do, we will drift away from God.
One question you may be asking- did the disciples get rebuked for not remembering what Jesus said? I believe they did. Let’s look at a few verses.
In Luke 24: 1-8 in the Message Bible, the angel reminded the ladies on Resurrection Sunday:
24 1-3 At the crack of dawn on Sunday, the women came to the tomb carrying the burial spices they had prepared. They found the entrance stone rolled back from the tomb, so they walked in. But once inside, they couldn’t find the body of the Master Jesus.
4-8 They were puzzled, wondering what to make of this. Then, out of nowhere it seemed, two men, light cascading over them, stood there. The women were awestruck and bowed down in worship. The men said, “Why are you looking for the Living One in a cemetery? He is not here, but raised up. Remember how he told you when you were still back in Galilee that he had to be handed over to sinners, be killed on a cross, and in three days rise up?” Then they remembered Jesus’ words.
Then Jesus rebuked the men on the road to Emmaus and in verses 25-27 of the same chapter above said:
25-27 Then he said to them, “So thick-headed! So slow-hearted! Why can’t you simply believe all that the prophets said? Don’t you see that these things had to happen, that the Messiah had to suffer and only then enter into his glory?” Then he started at the beginning, with the Books of Moses, and went on through all the Prophets, pointing out everything in the Scriptures that referred to him.
Jesus will also do the same for us. He will remind us of the promises when we forget. That’s why it is important to be in the Word daily because faith only comes by hearing the Word of God.
Just be encouraged when you are in the day between because Resurrection Sunday is coming when the promises will be fulfilled.
This is my encouragement to you this week.
Bless you and keep living the life God intended.
Karen
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