Experience Easter:: Saturday

I am in the library and I am here to prepare for the sermon tomorrow. I cannot concentrate on the sermon. My mind is taken to the darkness that I had to be in the minds and spirits of those who followed Jesus the day after he died.

Many of you who might read this know about Megan Moss. She has a sick heart and she needs a transplant. Last night was a very difficult night for her and she had an emergency procedure to help her heart do it's job. The procedure went well.

There were many praying last night. Many different circles of people who do not know Megan or anyone in her family. I am not sure why the procedure succeeded, if the prayers that were lifted up changed anything or not.

But I do know this. Whatever happened last night and whatever happens today or in the coming days. If Megan gets a new heart and lives to be 100 years old with lots of kids and grand kids or if none of that happens, tragedy does not stay tragic. It turns to hope because of what we will celebrate tomorrow.

There is a song I know, its first lines are these...
All you ever do is change the old for new.
God is bigger than the air breathe, the world we'll leave.
And God will save the day, and I will say my Glorious.

The point that I am trying to make is that we know the end of the story. You may be in darkness, dealing with difficulty or tragedy. You may have hurt or pain. It might not all make sense. But let me say one word about this darkness. Before I do, stop and think about darkness that is or has been in your life. Maybe even write it down on a piece of paper or in your minds eye, write it on a piece of paper. There is one word that is written across that piece of paper. TEMPORARY.

That word is written by Jesus as a result of what we will celebrate tomorrow. Temporary is a beautiful word isn't it? Celebrate temporary today. Weeping may tarry for the the night but joy comes with the morning Psalm 30:5