Did you know that Easter weekend represents the Trinity?
Well yeah, It’s all about how God raised Jesus from the dead.
But there’s MORE! Each day is can represent the Trinity!
Friday = Jesus
Saturday = Holy Spirit
Sunday = God the Father
On Friday, Jesus sacrificed himself for all of man’s sin. That’s quite possibly the most important part in our faith – that we believe Jesus, the son of God who was fully man and fully God, was the final sin sacrifice. That His blood covered it all. That when he said IT IS FINISHED he really meant it. Jesus’s physical body was murdered on that day, so that our souls can have eternal life.
Saturday was my favorite day to think about this year. We never really talk about it. Kind of like the Holy Spirit in American churches. There is this weird attitude towards the Holy Spirit where we treat him like the weird Uncle who nobody talks about. But He is kind of the coolest. The Holy Spirit communicates from God to us. He connects us to the father, and he indwells in us allowing us to be in community with Him. He mourns with us, He celebrates with us, He guides us, He lets us learn, He comforts us. On that first Easter Saturday nobody quite understood what Jesus was saying, so nobody understood that the next day He would rise. Now we watch a video with a narration that walks through the events saying “but Sunday is a coming.” They didn’t know! They spent that Saturday (which divinely was SABBATH) mourning Jesus. They spent it observing the sabbath, which meant resting and communing with God – something we rarely do. But they spent it in that fog that happens when a loved one passes. This Easter we had a Good Friday service where we did communion. The Lord showed me that at that first communion, Jesus took the bread, HAD AN ENTIRE MEAN, and then took the cup. There was a space between the two, just like on Easter weekend there is a space between the death and resurrection. Just like with the Trinity there is space for the Holy Spirit.
Sunday God rose Jesus from the grave! God the Father, giver of life, brought His SON back from the grave. Not just the gave being a tomb, but a spiritual grave of total separation from the Father, one in which could not hold the Son. The Father rose His Son in sweet victory for all creation.
