Holy Saturday, April 11, 2020
Dark. Just Dark? Hang on to the Word! Our Stories are not Finished!
Jeremiah 14:7
Although our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; our apostasies indeed are many, and we have sinned against you.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Words of Grace For Today
Of all the days of the year this Saturday following Good Friday has always been the day most filled with nothing, or rather void of everything. Jesus lays dead in the tomb. To repeat a buzz word repeated in history at many times: God is dead.
What can we do, except wait for God to prove by wondrous acts that God is not dead! And that God is and always has been, and always will be standing right beside us, no matter how blinding bright or deep dark our days are?
This day always is a day to remember our sins, from our blatant and intentional turnings from God, to the subtle ways we deny Christ’s work to free us as we try to play ‘god’ in our own lives and in others’ lives. When all is lost, this is the day to remember …
in anticipation that God is not done,
not with Jesus’ story! It does not end with Jesus decaying in the tomb of the dead.
We can remember with anticipation that God is not done,
not with our stories! Ours do not end in weeping, grieving, suffering, loss, or death.
God has much more in mind for us.
God is not done with us yet.