Today's Devotional

 

 April 10, 2009

                                                                                                             

Subject:  It May Be Friday, But Sunday's Coming

Matthew 28:5-8 "And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.  He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.  And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.  And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word."

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Some call it "Good Friday," but Friday as it relates to our commemoration of the resurrection, figuratively represents a very dire time for Christians.  For it was that Friday that dashed the hopes and dreams of the disciples.  It was that Friday that lead to denial by Peter of the Savior whom he had followed.  It was that Friday that caused darkness to fall over the land and the lives of a multitude of the followers of Jesus.  That didn't really seem like a "Good Friday" at the time, but the beauty of Friday is that Sunday's Coming.    

Perhaps today is not just calendar Friday, but maybe it is a figurative Friday in your life.  Perhaps today there is despair and fear, shame and hurt or loneliness and darkness.  The solution for this Friday in your life is answered by the Friday that Christ spent on the cross.  Surely most all of those emotions and feelings were present when Christ was crucified on that Friday thousands of years ago, but we must all remember that Sunday's Coming.

When Sunday comes in our lives, we forget about the pain of the Friday that we experienced and how we previously lived in fear of what was going to happen, just as the disciples did.  We forget about the fact that in our lives we often deny Christ, just as Peter did.  Instead we rejoice just as the women did at the tomb when they realized that Sunday morning that He had risen.

While today may still be Friday in your life, because of the cross, we can live today knowing that Sunday's coming and in that we shall ever rejoice.  

Carlen