Good Saturday morning! Easter weekend and Saturday is what would have been the Sabbath in about the year 30 A.D. We don't know for sure what Jesus did on this day. Did he finally give in to the Pharisees' demands and rest for the entire Sabbath? As I learn more about Jesus, I tend to think that He did more work on this day than at any other time. We know from His resurrection that He gained the victory over death and the grave. What combat or work might that have required on that long ago Sabbath? This is at least one day Jesus spoke of earlier when He told the leading priests that they could not come where He was going. The disciples did not go with him on this day. We know from the gospel accounts that they at first scattered and later came back together in secret; meeting behind locked doors. After fearlessly following their leader for about three years, the disciples became terrified without him. It seemed for the day that Jesus had gone back on his word of never leaving nor forsaking them.
We will endure dark days and like those disciples we must trust in a Lord we cannot see or touch. We will face fear and loneliness when we know in our hearts that He will return soon. The disciples had been told that Jesus would return. However, for a brief time they faced an uncertain future. Tomorrow, we will celebrate what changed those fearful few into a dynamic force of change in the Roman world. Glory to God in the highest!
Bucky
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