Devotional thought - Lent 2013 - day 46

I was thinking about how Jesus’ disciples must have felt on the day after His crucifixion - their sadness, disappointment, confusion, hopelessness, helplessness, any guilt or shame for abandoning Him, loneliness, grief, despair.  Today’s Daily Guideposts 2013 devotional speaks to this, starting with these words:

This is one of those few days on the calendar when we don’t quite know what to do with ourselves.  Some call it “Black Saturday.”  Jesus’ body lies in the tomb on this day, and our churches are usually quiet and dark until tomorrow morning, when we begin to celebrate.

But before Easter Sunday comes, there is a time to be quiet, to listen for God’s voice.  …

Then today’s God Calling begins:

Be calm, be true, be quiet. I watch over you.

In the darkness, to remember that He is watching over all.  To have faith… part of last night’s God at Eventide says:

I must trust Myself and My Cause to My followers who see me with the eyes of faith. How else can I be loved and known?

 They will meet Me, the outcast Savior, when I am performing no mighty deeds, wandering unheeded and unacclaimed through dark and lonely ways, and they will pause, all other pursuit forgotten, and will yet turn and follow Me.

Follow because of some chord in them responsive to the yearning of My Heart for Man, who has shut Me out. Follow, too, because of that in Me which is responsive to the cry of man's hungering soul.

 … and my journey with Him continues …