Silent Saturday

Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Resurrection Sunday... and Silent Saturday? Well actually that term does not exist (some call it Holy Saturday?), but I thought it should. We so often times forget that Jesus actually... laid there in the tomb for a day. His torn and scarred body, wrapped in linen, void of breath and life, it was there in that tomb just like any other dead body. Of course, our Lord was in Paradise with the thief by His side, but is that a means by which we excuse ourselves from meditating upon His death, His real state of death on this precious Saturday? His disciples and the others were probably mourning this day, an interesting mix of feelings as they celebrated God's faithfulness in bringing them out of Egypt, while also mourning the death of their Precious One. Only a day later would the significance of His death bring full light unto the Passover, and there on after these men and women will celebrate the Passover in its full intended meaning. Nonetheless, they mourned the death of Jesus, the innocent one crucified. Maybe the weakness in our church is that we don't mourn, we don't meditate on the significance of the death of Christ. We do not see, so therefore we do not care to see with our minds, and feel with our hearts. I pray these Saturdays will be filled with meditation upon the real death of Jesus, that it will stir us up to drink richly from the well of truth that Jesus died for us. The joy that was brought to Mary and the others on Sunday in the Resurrection, I believe, was only in relation to the depth of their mourning of His death on Saturday. Oh, that much love and joy would be stirred in our hearts as we reflect this Saturday on the death of Christ and await the full power of His resurrection this Sunday. Stay strong and God bless!