Sunday's Coming

Romans 8:18, "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us."

Tony Campolo tells about being invited to preach at a particular church just before Easter. After he finished his sermon, another guest speaker began his message with the these words, "It was Friday, but Sunday's coming."

What we now call Good Friday seemed to the disciples to be the darkest, most horrible day in human history. It was Friday, and their beloved Jesus was being mocked and humiliated as He was dying in terrible anguish on a cruel Roman cross.

Then it was Saturday, and the disciples had scurried in different directions to escape a fate similar to that of their Master. They were depressed, desolate and devastated, by Friday's turn of events.

But when the sun rose over a tomb filled with empty grave clothes and angel messengers that first Easter morning, the apostles were ecstatic! Sunday had come!

No matter how much pain we suffer on our Fridays nor how discouraged and disheartened we become on our Saturdays, we can remember that Sundays do come, and we can be grateful for all the Sundays God has already sent us. Also we can look up and be hopeful and remember that an eternal Sunday will come one day for all of us who belong to Jesus Christ. We can count on that!

Prayer: Father, help us to remember on the Fridays and Saturdays of our lives that Your glorious Sundays follow and that you have promised that good will come even from our Fridays and Saturdays. Amen.