(Mike posted this a month ago, but it is relevant for Holy Saturday, so we tweaked the opening paragraph and changed the reading for today.)

Yesterday, Annie posted about a seminary student who shared how some congregations are “Good Friday people.” They connect to Christ as the suffering servant who is right there with them in their suffering. He noted that growing up, his congregations had always been “Easter people” – people who recognized Good Friday and held services, but who were really just building up to Easter and Christ’s resurrection.  

Talking these different perceptions over with brothers in Christ, Charlie said, “Maybe we should all think about being Saturday People.” How do we live in the in between times? It’s easy to have faith when we’re caught up in the mountain top experiences of our lives and/or in situations where we have nowhere left to turn and drop to our knees. And it’s even easier, it seems, to ignore faith, doubt faith, lose faith or find distractions or substitutes for faith in the in between times.

After witnessing God’s actions first hand in Egypt, what do the Israelites do when Moses goes up on the mountain to meet with God face to face? What do they do in the in between time? They craft an idol. What do the disciples do between Good Friday and Easter? What do I do between the work week ending on Friday and going to church on Sunday? 

Jesus came, died, rose and will come again. We are born, we (hopefully) find Jesus, die and go to Heaven. Is that it? What about the in between time? What do we do on Saturday?

We may look for the Kingdom of God to come on a Sunday with loud trumpets, signs in the Heavens, unmistakable fanfare. But my guess is that it’s already here, quietly waiting. As we are still and listen, the Spirit equips us to notice it, welcome it and share it – maybe on a Saturday. And sharing it is everything, because if we don’t notice and share, then this life may be nothing more than someone else’s in between time; and maybe just our in between time as well.

Read Matthew 27:62-66, and remember that whether you consider yourself a “Good Friday person,” a Saturday person, or an “Easter person,” God loves YOU unconditionally.

Mike