Three Days

 4/16/25025

John 14:6 "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"

The Lenten season is almost over. The next three days bring Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, or what some call the Day of Silence. This Holy Week has been different for me, as has the entirety of Lent. It has been a time of spiritual renewal and deeper commitment for me that I truly never expected. I am so very grateful. It has not been without its challenges, but I expected that. It seems the deeper into Lent it becomes and as Easter Day draws near, the more the evil one has been on the prowl in my life. I'm sure this is true for others as well. It is his way of trying to pull focus away from Jesus. Not today, Satan. 

Tomorrow, I will be attending a service at my church, Friday I will attempt to watch The Passion of the Christ, and Saturday I think I will just take time to be silent and reflective. This day is an interesting one of Holy Week for me, as it is the one where the disciples were in hiding even after Jesus told them what was to come (Matthew 20:18-19). They still did not understand. You can just imagine how long that day was for them. They were afraid of retribution for following Jesus. You can imagine how Peter must have felt after denying Jesus three times as well? They all must have felt hopeless, but unfathomable joy would come in the morning. 

I think I connect with this Day of Silence because I have been there myself in a way. Even knowing the Risen Savior, I have had times of fear and doubt. I have experienced being in a spiritual desert where all I hear is silence. There have also been times when I have feared, not death or retribution, but judgement from others for my faith. The disciples' world was inhospitable to them, and our world is largely still the same way to those who follow Jesus. I am praying, however, to not let this stop me from speaking what I know to be The Truth. 

So, over the next three days, I will stay in a spirit of gratitude for what Jesus did for me. His was the ultimate sacrifice to bring me and the whole world freedom and eternal life. 

Sacrifice unimaginable. Grace undeserved. Love unmatched. 

To God be the glory.