What about Saturday?

When you think about Easter, do you think about Saturday?

Friday is all about the suffering and sacrifice of Christ on the cross for our sins. Then we jump over to Sunday, when Christ exits the tomb, breaks through the barrier of death, and His resurrection is a reality. It’s important to focus on both those days, but we often skip right over Saturday. Why?

There is nothing but silence on Saturday. Doubt and fear…Who is in control? This wasn’t supposed to happen. We didn’t plan this.

Jesus endured the Saturday, too. He allowed Himself to experience that Saturday of silence. All of us who find ourselves in that Saturday, between the experience of pain and the solution to our sufferings and burdens, between the offered prayer and the answered prayer, between the breakdown of your hopes and plans and the restoration that Christ gives, are experiencing what Jesus did for us. He has already been there and back. He will meet you there. Let the time pass. Don’t bail out. Hold on; and when you can’t hold on anymore, don’t worry, Jesus is holding on to you! Sunday is just a few hours away!

Believe. Rest. Endure.