Friday was the crucifixion of Christ. Sunday was His Resurrection. What happened on Saturday? Christ’s family of believers were in hiding, fearful for their physical well-being, lacking a show of faith in all their crucified leader had promised: “…’The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And when He is killed, after three days He will rise.’ ” Mark 9:31 (ESV).
Ironically, on that Saturday post crucifixion, Jesus’ enemies, the chief priests and Pharisees, were the ones afraid of Christ’s words. They, not the disciples, were hearing and haunted by the words Jesus had spoken. Would Jesus be resurrected, or could His body be stolen and resurrection, thereby, be claimed? Fearing either, “The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priest and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, ‘Sir, we remember how that imposter said, while He was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise’. Therefore, order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples go and steal Him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead”. Matthew 27:62-64 (ESV)
Consequently, can it not be concluded that on Holy Saturday the truth, power and fulfillment of Christ’s words were submerged in unlikeliness in the believer but an emergent probability in the non-believer? Plain and simple, the believers were forgetting faith produces what is thought to be impossible, as the non-believers were warding off the recognition of faith’s possibility. Thus, on this, the day when Christ was silent in the tomb, maybe we are meant to be His voice. Let’s ponder whether the voice of our faith is suppressed by worldly fear or vibrantly professing that which Christ has promised: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 