Waiting

"On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment." (Luke23:56b)

What was it like there the day after Jesus was crucified? What were the disciples doing? What was the Jewish Sanhedrin doing now? What was Pilate thinking? What must it have been like on Saturday? Jesus is dead, and He is buried.

I think that a strong case can be made that the disciples either had not heard, did not understand, simply had forgotten, or in the worse case did not believe, what Jesus had said about the Resurrection. Peter was likely in agony. All were in grief. It must have been an incredibly long day.

Ps. 37:7 says, "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him." Being still and waiting on God is one of the harder things we are called on to do. God is always perfectly right on time. He is never early, and He is never late. But when Jesus is dead, and in the tomb, how hard must it be to wait. Of course, we know that Jesus rose from the tomb on Sunday. He is no longer dead, but alive forevermore.

Yet there are times in our lives when God is silent, and Jesus seems distant. Will you be still today, and wait on the Lord? The greatest escape in history happened on Sunday morning. But on Saturday, we must wait.