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<\/p>\nJust as Jesus once slept peacefully in the stern of a boat while his disciples fussed and fretted over the raging storm, He also rested in a tomb as his followers dealt with a storm of confusion, disappointment and fear.\u00a0 A day after his death, these emotions cycled endlessly through their minds.\u00a0 Memories of the time they spent with him, planning and hoping for the new order they expected Him to lead them into played there too. Memories of what it felt like to walk upon a rolling sea, to feed five thousand people with the lunch of one small boy, to see Lazarus\u2019s burial clothes left in the dirt, no longer needed.\u00a0 No doubt they were heartsick with confusion.\u00a0 What had gone wrong?<\/p>\n
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The disciples feeble faith in their Lord should not surprise us because if we are honest, we see it in ourselves as well. The \u201cof little faith\u201d as he often called them failed to recognize and remember the things He Himself had told them about His path: that He would suffer for their sakes, that He would lay down His life \u2013 and take it up again, that he would be absent from them for 3 days.\u00a0 Had His followers held these things as closely to their hearts as they did their dreams of power, that Sabbath might have been an occasion of joyful anticipation rather than sorrow and fear.<\/p>\n
At times in our own lives, God may seem absent, but we know that He will never leave us (Hebrews 13:5<\/a>).\u00a0 And, unlike those disciples, we will never experience the dark prospect of a failed savior.\u00a0 Still, we often forget the promises of God.\u00a0 In the face of uncertainty we often turn to a Do-It-Yourself kind of Christianity.<\/p>\n Too often we look no farther than our own solutions when what we need is the wonder working power of Christ\u2019s resurrection and an attitude of humble anticipation as we wait on Him. If we have faith in God as a candle, we too can rest through the darkness of night knowing that morning will surely come.<\/p>\n Happy Good Friday and I wish you a blessed Easter weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just as Jesus once slept peacefully in the stern of a boat while his disciples fussed and fretted over the raging storm, He also rested in a tomb as his followers dealt with a storm of confusion, disappointment and fear. A day after his death, these emotions cycled endlessly through their minds. Memories of the … Continue reading “Good Friday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[67,57],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matters-of-faith","tag-jesus","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21556,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/21556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}