Saturday. After the dramatic crucifixion of Jesus, you get a Saturday. If you think that loving Jesus is only about Christmas and Easter Sunday, let's take a closer look at this Saturday. Some people call it the day of waiting, or the in-between time, but I would offer that this is who Jesus really is, and the whole point of His message.
Saturday was a day of shame and failure. When hopes and plans and dreams and promises were dead and done. Jesus' own friends and family, hating him, betraying Him, lying, and abandoning Him. Watching Him die and be buried. Slinking back to their old jobs. Yes, hypocrites, every single one.
Saturday was a day of joy, relief and peace for those who wanted Jesus dead. Those who sought to preserve their own positions, prestige and power even if they had to destroy to achieve it. They called it legal. They called it justice. Hypocrites, every single one.
Jesus is the only one who can and will love you on the Saturdays of your lives. When you have utterly failed, destroyed every thing you ever planned, hoped, believed or loved. When you have stood proud and loud for the destruction of others. When you have alienated everyone. That is the true message of Jesus.
Plans? They can fail. People? They also fail in every way. God loves you. He comes for you when you trashed your life and slink into the shadows. He comes for you when you are caught up in your own reflection and are lauded for your selfish actions.
Saturday. When you and I would be long, long gone, Jesus comes loving, saving, forgiving, healing. Not for who you are or aren't. Not for what you did or didn't. He came for us because He wanted to: loving us.
Consider how a loving God can and will love you, and you can't talk Him out of it. Yes, people run. Horrible choices are made every minute. Plans and dreams fail. But God loves above and beyond. I encourage you to seek Jesus, even on a Saturday.
--Rachel Cornec
Facebook, April 17, 2022
Image source: Josef Hermann?, Apostles, https://jamestabor.com/the-first-easter-when-angels-and-apostles-wept/
What a powerful reading!
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