(Post by: Colton)
Good Friday has passed and Jesus is in the tomb. Heaven is silent. And the quiet feels unbearable.
There is a thickness in the air that no one can comprehend, and the world seems to have stopped spinning. We always talk about the bleeding, suffering, and dying of Friday (See yesterday’s post for reference), as well as the beautiful joy and peace of Resurrection Sunday.
But what about Saturday? The day in between promise and fulfillment.
We always focus on those two beautiful days but often overlook the powerful day of Saturday where Jesus’ own disciples were in complete disarray. The Messiah they had followed for three years and had spent time with had been crucified. The One they spoke with, ate with, and watched perform miracle after miracle was now dead. Peter had just denied Him three times, even after Jesus told him he would. I can’t even imagine what he felt the day after seeing Him hung on a cross, beaten, and dying.
The disciples believed that Jesus was the One who would change everything. All those miracles they had seen, the teachings they had heard, the promises they believed… they probably felt so distant. Some may have even doubted.
Maybe even Heaven was quiet and downcast. But on this quiet, mournful day where all hope felt lost, God was still working.
He was working in the unseen and in the unknown. The disciples had heard from Jesus’ teachings that He would, in fact, return. That He would WIN. But I’m sure there was still some doubt.
The Lord has told us that He’s working; all the time, every day. No matter what, He is in the unseen. Just because we don’t see the movement doesn’t mean that He is absent.
The silence that the disciples were in was not hopelessness or defeat, it was preparation for what was to come.
Even in the silence, Heaven was writing a victory story.
The man who had been beaten, killed, and buried behind a stone would not stay in the grave.
Jesus rose, conquering sin, death, and every power of darkness.
This is the promise hidden in Saturday, it always points to His victory.
Too often we sit in a place of despair, allowing the enemy to steal our joy. But Saturday invites us to place our trust in Jesus. He asks us to completely rely on Him in everything. The disciples didn’t know Sunday was coming, but Jesus did. He was already working out every last detail.
The disciples needed Sunday to seal the deal, but Saturday was a silent proclamation of faith. To not run in fear. To hold on to all the faith we have. To remember Jesus.
To believe that even in silence, God is still writing the story.
The Few 
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