The Day Between
For the average Christian woman, I hazard to guess, the Saturday between Good Friday and Resurrection Morning is a day of housecleaning, cooking, preparing and wrapping up finishing touches to Easter baskets – not to mention ensuring everyone in the family has something sufficiently spiffy to wear on the most important Sunday on the church calendar. There will also most likely be some special church events to which she is contributing and preparing. All this would make for a busy, full Saturday – perhaps a bit harried and not at all conducive to meditations and ponderings. We’ve all heard the saying, “ It’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming ”, which is of course referring to the awesome and miraculous reversal of Christ on the cross, suffering for our sin, to Christ risen, victorious over sin and death. We have the privilege of knowing He is King – He has won. Our salvation, indeed Christianity in total, is based on that truth. But the disciples – Peter, John and the others, the