LIVING
IN THE SATURDAY

Topics: Easter; Holy Week; Hope; Jesus Christ; Kingdom of God; Patience; Resurrection; Second Coming; Waiting on God

References: John 20:1–18; Romans 8:18–25; 1 Corinthians 15:1–11

Good Friday and Easter Sunday have earned names on the calendar. Yet in a real sense we live on Saturday, the day with no name. What the disciples experienced in small scale—three days in grief over one man who had died on a cross—we now live through on a cosmic scale.

Human history grinds on between the time of promise and fulfillment. Can we trust that God can make something holy and beautiful and good out of a world that includes Bosnia and Rwanda and inner-city ghettos and jammed prisons in the richest nation on earth? It’s Saturday on planet Earth. Will Sunday ever come?

—Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew (Zondervan, 1995)