The Journey to Sunday



 

I saw this on the Facebook page of Women Living Well this afternoon.  If you don't already subscribe to it, I highly recommend it.

 

Courtney captions this photo...

 

Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday, on Saturday - things looked hopeless. But Sunday morning he rose from the dead - just as He said.
Maybe there is something in your life that looks dead - give God time! There is always hope with Jesus <3 span=""> !

I've often thought about this over the years during "Easter weekend"...

 

sometimes we just want to skip Good Friday and skip Saturday to jump straight to

Resurrection Sunday.

 

And while we certainly do look forward to the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

we simply cannot overlook Friday...

 

the day He died a criminal's death on the cross

the day God Almighty turned His back on His one & only Son

the day Jesus cried out to His Father why have you forsaken me

 

We cannot overlook Mary & the followers of Jesus who must have cried out to God Almighty to save their loved one. We simply cannot overlook Saturday...

 

the day of hopelessness for Mary & the followers of Jesus

the day of crying & reliving seeing Him cry out on the cross

the day of mourning & weeping

 

 We have to go through Good Friday through His death on the cross

and we have to go through our own "Saturdays"...

in order to get to Sunday.

So many of us are experiencing our own "Saturday"...

we weep and we cry out to the God of mercy...

and then one day, our weeping will indeed turn into joy once again.

And our own "Sunday" will always come through our risen Savior.