Christ’s Redeeming Love | Part 2

   Waiting.

    It’s so hard to wait, sometimes. We always seem to get caught up in the business and bustle of life, and forget to stop and think and wait for just a half-a-second. But that’s what today should be. A day of waiting, of reflection, of remembering Christ’s horrific and awesome sacrifice, of looking forward to His resurrection and the salvation that is to come. 

    How can we properly experience something so mysterious, so grand and wonderful, in a world that has forgotten to care? But we need to. Somehow, we need this day of waiting, to prepare ourselves for the miracle that is to come. 

    The disciples, despite having been told multiple times by Christ Himself what was going to happen, were yet clueless and had no notion of the hope they were about to be given. Instead they reeled back in astonishment and fear and disbelief. They had no choice but to wait—though for what they were waiting they had no idea whatsoever. 

    Sometimes we scoff and wonder, why didn’t they know better? Why didn’t they listen to what their Lord and Saviour told them? And yet we would have been no better. You or I, we’d have been just as oblivious, just as daft—and that speaks to exactly why we need a Saviour. We’re so lost without Him. We can do nothing of our own strength and expect to be saved because we are “good enough.”

    This day in between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, it allows us to dwell on that. On just how much we need God. On how much He endured for us, just because He loved us. And while the whole world is breathless in anticipation for the salvation to come, we can remember, and be thankful. 

    And as we move from the overbearing darkness of sin to the brilliant light of redemption, we dwell on His sacrifice. That the God of the universe was crucified for our sake. That He redeemed our souls by the sacrifice of His blood. Now that—that is something more than worth waiting for. 

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Soli Deo Gloria,

Astrya