WHEN HEAVEN IS SILENT: The sum total of Easter Saturday? WAITING. Oh, what pain and anxiety that word elicits! Waiting for the job. That one deal. The spouse. A child. Waiting for the world to change. Today, it is us staring at the bare crosses and dead dreams in our lives and still, somehow, hoping for a resurrection tomorrow. #TheMessageOfEaster
August 10, 2021 at 6:42 pm
It is interesting that there is a tangible silence in the atmosphere today! ??
August 10, 2021 at 6:42 pm
Talk about it…
August 10, 2021 at 6:43 pm
Am waiting in total silence.
August 10, 2021 at 6:43 pm
You are in a good place, Harriet. Habakkuk 2:20; But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth hush and be silent before Him..
August 10, 2021 at 6:43 pm
And so, we wait patiently, waiting well for the Lord.
August 10, 2021 at 6:44 pm
Beautiful
August 10, 2021 at 6:44 pm
Thank Jacob for these deep Easter reflections.
May Christ resurrect all our dead areas.
August 10, 2021 at 6:45 pm
And yet as we wait with expectation, we must remember that the things we see now are temporal and the unseen things are eternal.
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August 10, 2021 at 6:45 pm
Indeed, Julie. God understands (and empathizes) with our temporal troubles as much as He cares for our eternal salvation. That’s why He came down and lived among us. And walked where we walk. And was tempted in every way. That was His eternal plan. He could easily have chosen that for every one that accepts him, they get snatched up to heaven. But because we live it out here, He gives us grace, and hope, for both now and our eternal future..
August 10, 2021 at 6:45 pm
Prayerfully Waiting… ??
August 10, 2021 at 6:46 pm
And it can be a silence borne of deep despair, like the disciples must have experienced that day..Yet they waited. We too wait…..
August 10, 2021 at 6:46 pm
Eseza, despair that even drives us back to the comfort of the familiar – not what God is pointing us to, and would have us wait for. It’s Simon Peter (forgetting he was now called to be a fisher of men) going back fishing with seven of the disciples—Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee (James and John), and two others. But God has a sense of humor even in these situations. These seasoned fishermen caught nothing all morning – until Jesus showed up. And then they abandoned their haul on the shore for their true calling!
August 10, 2021 at 6:46 pm
The goodness (read, FAITH) is in knowing that even if the heaven’s quiet, there’s a resurrection in waiting. Something’s great is being birthed. How I pray we don’t grow weary?!!