Cliff's Blue Notes - Saturday Living In A Sunday World

At church on Easter I heard the worship leader share this brief story of a conversation he had with his young son that morning.

"So, Dad, Friday was when Jesus died, right?"

"Right."

"And Sunday is when Jesus came back alive, right?"

"Right."

"So what is Saturday about?"

"Well...hmm...Saturday is the place of questions, doubts, difficulty, hopelessness. It's the time you can't see things clearly. It's a time of waiting - even hope."

I was stunned by this little, simple conversation because of how actually profound it really is.

The phrase that went through my mind as this story was being shared was "Saturday living in a Sunday world." It explains the conundrum many of us are in in the world we live in today. We are living in the tension between our Friday personal experience and connection with God, and a Saturday world of doubts, questions, and hopelessness, as if Jesus did not actually defeat death and raise from the dead in resurrection power on 

Sunday. 

But Jesus did rise from the dead. He did appear to Peter and John and the apostles. He did let Thomas touch His wounds and feel His scars. He left crumbs on the table from the meal he ate, before he disappeared again, only to reappear later, to as many as five hundred people at a time. He walked a lonely road with a couple of distressed followers, encouraging them with probably the best Bible study ever. I really wish I could download that mp3, don't you? I will definitely watch that video in heaven. 

But I am encouraged by this fact, which is that Jesus is no longer limited by the encumbrance of a normal physical body. He is available to all of us just as much as He was to those beleaguered believers back in the days of the New Testament. And each of us gets the whole, real, full Jesus, not some watered down version of Jesus. We don't have to split him up with the other one and a half billion or so other believers in the world. No. We all get all of Jesus to ourselves, so to speak. And that is the real miracle of the Resurrection.

We live in a day that is post-resurrection, a Sunday world. So stop with your small Saturday thinking and living and begin to entertain the idea in your head that the King of all kings is available to you all of the time, no matter what.