Easter Eve

This is our next to last day on our 40 day journey to Easter.  We’re just hours from the stroke of midnight and the Easter sunrise…the day we’ve been anticipating.

This day, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday gets a bum rap for there is little we can do on this day but wait.  In the words of an old preacher; “It’s Friday but Sunday’s Coming,” Saturday is left out as if it doesn’t even exist.

I’m not trying to sound silly or ridiculous but there is something here I want to excavate for you.  Even though we don’t know what was really happening in divine order on that historic Saturday we do know God was at work.  It wasn’t a dead space for God, there is no such thing.

This day, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, must have felt like the forty years between Moses exodus the first time and his return.  Did Moses know God was at work paring him for ministry? 

This day just may be the darkest day in human history for the crucifixion had occurred and the resurrection was yet to happen, yet there was no hope in sight for those who loved the Messiah.

I have spent many a dark day, spiritual Saturday’s, waiting for something to resurrect.  My hopes in the natural were dashed and the darkness of my night was blacker than any moonless night. 

Mary Magdalene didn’t allow that dark day to rob her, she rose before dawn to travel to the grave.  She anticipated something in the dark.  I would be different than she would find and sometimes our wait will do the same for us.  Trust me it was worth the wait for the darkness of night would never again be as dark as it was That Day. 

You and I do not have to wait for sunrise tomorrow to celebrate Easter, on this side of the cross every day is Easter!  So enjoy your Saturday prayer time…we’ve already seen Jesus and He’s Alive!

I’ll meet you at the throne,

Pastor George