The Day Between
Theme of the week: What Happened the Day before Easter?
Sunday, March 24, 2013
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Who Said It … John Ortberg
John Ortberg is senior pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California, and he contributes regularly to Leadership Journal. He is the bestselling author of When the Game is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box; The Life You've Always Wanted; If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat; and Who Is This Man?—the book from which this week's readings are adapted.
What he Said … The Day Between
So far as we know, there has only been one day in the last two thousand years when literally not one person in the world believed Jesus was alive. On Saturday morning after Jesus' crucifixion, the disciples wake after not having slept for two days. The city that was screaming for blood the day before is quiet. Crowds have disbanded. Jesus is dead.
This isn't Sunday. This isn't Friday. This is Saturday. The day after this but the day before that. The day after a prayer gets prayed but there is no answer on the way. The day after a soul gets crushed way down but there's no promise of ever getting up off the mat. It's a strange day, this in-between day. In between despair and joy. In between confusion and clarity. In between bad news and good news. In between darkness and light.
Even in the Bible—outside of one detail about guards being posted to watch the tomb—we're told nothing about Saturday. Saturday is the day with no name, the day when nothing happened.
Key Study Passage: Matthew 12:38-42; Jonah 2
Adapted from Who Is This Man? (Zondervan, 2012) by permission. All rights reserved by the copyright holder and/or the publisher. May not be reproduced.
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