Today’s Easter Devotional is written by Sarah Beth Cody
I wonder how dark that second day must have been. I wonder how many felt their faith falter during those hours — how many questioned if everything they had believed was a hoax.
Those hours must have felt like eternity — the hours when the Creator of eternity was summoned to the grave. Walking turned to agonizing turned to defeat.
The emotions that would have ensued — agony becoming fear becoming bitterness becoming full-blown anger. It’s not so different more than 2,000 years later, you know.
How many times have I, too, lost hope in the waiting?
How often is Jesus finishing what He started while I quickly assume He is done, losing hope and losing affection?
He is refining; I am doubting.
He is orchestrating; but I am, too.
He says, “It is finished.” But I moved on long ago, determined He would never follow through.
Patience is a virtue, but faith will take us to the third day.
May the weekend we celebrate the Life that was death be the weekend we remember the glory in faithfulness. Jesus was faithful in the grave, and He is faithful in 2015, for He cannot deny Himself.
The tomb is empty; so also may our doubts be.
