APRIL 8, 2023
HOLY SATURDAY
Matthew 27:62-66
62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 "Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.' 64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first." 65 "Take a guard," Pilate answered. "Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how." 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
This passage is the only text that speaks of the Saturday between Crucifixion (Good Friday) and Jesus' Resurrection (Easter Sunday).
Sometimes, I feel we rush to Easter Sunday and the celebration of Resurrection. I don't know how you feel about it, but I have found in my walk with Christ, that lingering a while at the cross, and the moments of Good Friday has become good practice to be reminded of Jesus sacrificial love for each all, and that this pause prepares me for resurrection celebration.
I want to invite you to watch and listen to the video below as a way to linger at the cross and the stand outside the sealed tomb and somehow by the Spirits presence step into the experience of the followers of Jesus. These moments today may just serve in GETTING READY FOR EASTER.
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