March 26, 2005 Holy Saturday Job 19:21-27

 March 26, 2005                                  Holy Saturday                         Job 19:21-27

 

Job 19:25-27 “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!”

 

In high school, I never liked history.  A bunch of famous people running around on April 3, 1862 seemed to have nothing to do with me.  Then it hit me.  Those people weren’t famous then!  They were just people trying to make it through today!

The same was true for the disciples on the Saturday before Easter.  None of them were thinking how they would look cast in a church’s stained glass window.  They were locked in a room on the Sabbath.  They couldn’t go to the synagogue; they would be arrested or killed.  They couldn’t function in society without attending synagogues; the church was the foundation of Jewish society.  All they could do was sit in that room with all the other “losers” they had been with for the past three years.  Their master, their inspiration, their Savior was gone.  And He was never coming back!

We feel that way sometimes, too, don’t we? When we fail in our duties; when we fail in our relationships; when we are just so tired from the never-ending grind of the world; or when we lose a loved one from this world.  As Job said, “How my heart yearns.”

But Job knows that God will provide.  God sent Jesus Christ to give us his Holy Spirit.  Gad assures us that we, our loved ones, and all those who trust in His mercy and live the life given them will eventually be reunited and see the glory of the Lord.  And, like the disciples, by this time tomorrow, we too will know it is true!

 

Heavenly Father, thank you for hearing our prayers.  Thank you for hearing our sighs.  Thank you for the gift of your Son, Jesus.  Amen.

 

Contributed by Dave Cerven