We Wait For It With Patience

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Romans 8:18-25

It is Friday, but Sunday is coming. On Friday, it seemed the forces of evil had triumphed. Saturday, for them did not exist. It was Sunday, and the disciples never doubted God ever again. They learned that when God seems most absent, He may be closest of all.

Saturday is the day with no name. What the disciples lived through in small scale, we now live through on cosmic scale. It is Saturday on planet earth; will Sunday ever come?

That dark, Golgathan Friday can only be called good because of what happened on Sunday. Easter opened with a crack in a universe winding down toward decay. And some day God will enlarge the miracle of Easter to cosmic scale. Meanwhile, we wait in hopeful anticipation, living out our days on Saturday, the in-between day with no name. It’s Saturday. But Sunday’s comin’.

God took the worst deed of history and turned it into the greatest victory.

Our Daily Bread – April 11, 2009