Ramblings that landed in my journal today as I wrote in a tiny coffee shop on this rainy Seattle day:
Yesterday was Good Friday, tomorrow is Easter…not sure if today, the day in between, has a name…
It seems in a lot of ways we’re always in the day in between. There seems to always be something to look back on, be sad about, or regret and usually always something to look forward to…hope that is coming, even if we can’t see it yet.
It’s the day in between.
What will we do on this Saturday, this day in between? Look back on the tragedy of yesterday, the death and sadness? Or look forward to the hope that is just ahead, the resurrection and the life?
“Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. After the suffering if his soul, he will see the light of life and will be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.” Isaiah 53:10-11
Each day we have the choice – the choice to live in light of death and sadness, or in light of hope and life. Not every day, but today I choose hope. Today I choose life.
Thank you, Jesus, for your death. Thank you for your sacrifice…which covers all, forever. Thank you for the life and hope your death has brought…oh, what a paradox. And thank you for the life that followed. Thank you for the resurrection.
“The ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.” Isaiah 51:11
No more sorrow. No more sighing. Everlasting joy. Overwhelming gladness.
Our sin and death are behind us, life and hope is before us. Everlasting salvation is ours.
We live in the day in between.
“Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.” Isaiah 51:6
In between death and life.
In between sin and everlasting salvation.
In between sorrow and joy.
In between death and resurrection.
Yesterday was Good Friday, tomorrow is Easter.
Today is the day in between.
Ah, Jesus, thank you for the day in between. The day we get to choose faith, choose trust and choose to believe the hope that is coming…the hope we can’t quite see or understand yet. Anchor my soul in You, this day and every day. Set my eyes on your hope. Give me faith to trust in the goodness that is coming. And please let my life of in-between days be lived to glorify You.
