The Saturday sandwiched between Good Friday and Easter Sunday is filled with waiting.

On most occasions, the mere idea of waiting for something produces uncertainty and anxiety…in rare cases, eager anticipation.

After Jesus’ death, I would assume those who followed Him and loved Him were also waiting…but they did not know what for.

We have the luxury of knowing Sunday’s coming…all they had were promises made by the One they believed to be the Messiah.

Have you ever thought you were certain about something or someone?

You thought you knew them well….

You thought you could trust them…

You thought they loved you too…

You thought you could believe in them…

And then something happens to shake up that certainty.

It is so easy to believe when what you believe in stands right in front of you or is held in your hands.

It becomes more difficult to stand firm in your convictions when that no longer is the case.

With Jesus’s friends and family, that had to be where they were on “Saturday”.

I can understand that and appreciate that thought today.

There are many circumstances in out lives that place us right in the middle of what once was and what will be.

The what will be thinkingis highly influenced by what we said we believed during the what once was time.

I will be happy….how can I be after the death of someone I love?

I will be well…how can I be in the middle of an illness?

Things will work out…will it really if I let go of what I am clinging to?

I will not be alone…

I will not be forsaken…

I will have peace….

I will have joy…

I will feel loved…

What was started in me will be completed…

There is a plan for my life…

I don’t know where you are today, but if you are also sandwiched in the waiting….remember we DO know Sunday is coming.

Let that knowing be an encouragement….the promises made to the disciples were fulfilled by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Everything they believed about Christ when He was with them, He completed and affirmed in His death and resurrection.

Sunday is coming for me.

Sunday is coming for you.

Resurrection power heals, revives, restores, renews…I need some of that in my life~clinging to the Cross brings it.

Be encouraged this Saturday.