What about Saturday?

 What about Saturday ?

The day after His death…

Having gone through the deaths of my closest…mom, dad, husband…the day after was surreal in some ways…there is the sense they will still call, come through the door…a numbness of the mind…you are working in automatic motions…maybe packing, readying for the next move…making arrangements…writing an obituary, talking to those around you, a quietness…a sense that this could not be happening and  it is all a dream…surely you will awaken and life will be normal again…a denial…a “how could this be”…or even a guilty relief of release from the hard caregiving…

We have the history and the Word which tells us what the expectation of waiting for Resurrection Sunday…we know that Christ arose…it says so…

But the people who watched him say, “it is finished” and die on the cross hadn’t experienced Sunday yet…it was their day of rest by Jewish tradition \law…they had to wait to anoint his body for burial until Sunday…

But, it had already been anointed…he was ready…

“ Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Matt 26:6-13

I can imagine the women waiting to anoint Jesus’ body were a bit antsy to finish their job of anointing…they wanted to clean him up from his horrible ordeal…put to rest this awful time…but, they had to wait…that hard thing to do for most of us…

 Wait for the Lord;be strong, and let your heart take courage;wait for the Lord!

Ps.27.14

 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning,more than watchmen for the morning.

Ps.130.5-6

Thank YOU….

“Holy Saturday is referred to in each Gospel, but Luke gives a glimpse into the law behind this specific day. Luke 23:55 shares, “As his body was taken away, the women from Galilee followed and saw the tomb where his body was placed. Then they went 

home and prepared spices and ointments to anoint his body. But by the time they were finished the Sabbath had begun, so they rested as required by the law." 

Saturday in Jewish tradition is the Sabbath, so it was against the law of the land for the women to place the oils and spices they had prepared for the body. This timing is no coincidence, for after the Sabbath is over at the dawn of Sunday they attempt to go and honor the body again, and it is then in Luke 24 that the glorious miracle is revealed that indeed Jesus was true to His word to rise again.”

https://www.crosswalk.com/special-coverage/easter/what-happened-on-holy-saturday.html

“Holy Saturday is the name given to the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Some Christians recognize Holy Saturday, the seventh day of Holy Week, as the day on which Jesus “rested” from His work of providing salvation. As Jesus died, He called out, “It is finished!” There was no further price to pay; sin had been atoned for.”

https://www.gotquestions.org/Holy-Saturday.html

While I wait….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NswPPVgMaPE