It was the day of preparation and the Sabbath began, the women, who had come from Galilee with Jesus as a result, saw the tomb and how the body had been deposited there, then retreated to prepare aromas and balm; and on Saturday, they rested, according to the mandate (Luke 23:54-56).
It was the saddest day. The Word that had become flesh and lived among us was cold in a grave. What do you do when the one who resurrected the dead is dead?
- The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem.
- Then golgotha and finally to the grave felt not only sadness.
- But also confusion: the man they thought was the liberator was dead.
- Were they always wrong?.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy (Exodus 20. 8). They did not have the answers to their questions, but they had God’s commandment. Six days, you will work and do all your work; But the seventh day is the Sabbath day of the Lord your God (Exodus 20:9-10). Therefore, these faithful women have done what their mothers, fathers, and Israelites had done since The time of Moses: they kept the Sabbath day. When a veil of darkness descends upon us in the form of tragedies, unanswered prayers, or disappointment with God, we can, like these broken-hearted women, walk in obedience.
The faithful obey when there seems to be no advance, no way out of prison, no calm after the storm. Faith requires no imagination to predict how God could solve the problems we face.
When we are tempted to sink into despair, we must, instead, as Elisabeth Elliot so memorably advised, “do the following. “We may not be able to discern how God will take us out of the well, but we do not need to. We have been granted simply to obey him in the task he has commanded us to do today.
Although women did not know how God would keep his promises, they knew it: a corpse needs care; however, until his funeral for Jesus’ broken body he had to wait; remembered on Saturday and watched him. For them, the next thing was to rest.
It is easy to obey when we can see how God will bless our obedience, but it is much more difficult when we do not see its purpose. At worst, it may seem that you simply cannot persevere until the end of the journey in which God but all God demands of you is that you continue to put your feet behind others as you walk the path of obedience.
You don’t need to know where this path takes you or how God will support you, because He knows where it takes you.
If there was ever a day when God’s people seemed far from liberated, that day was that dark Sabbath. A few days earlier, the crowd had exclaimed, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!?(Luke 13:35). But now, who, sane, could call Jesus blessed?Not only was he dead, but he had been hung from a lumberjack. According to the law of Moses, he had suffered the death of the cursed (Deuteronomy 21:23). But that’s not what it looked like. Just as God rested after the work of creation, the Son of God rested after the work of redemption. God rested after contemplating her creation and calling her good. Your Son rested after we took our guilt. himself and declared, “Is this over?” (John 19. 30).
The Sabbath resting rituals may have been the same as previous rituals, but everything had changed; God had done the work his people could not do; now they could rest in God’s complete work; every Saturday I had observed this. The Sabbath foreshadowed the spiritual rest that might belong to them only once their sins had been paid. On the Sabbath they observed that day, he foreshadowed the rest that awaits us all in the life to come (Hebrews 4:4-11). I feel sad when I imagine the saddest days. I am inspired by the women who kept God’s commandments and honored the Sabbath even though they did not understand how it was possible for God to do his crying dance. on the other side of Saturday there would be no body to bury.