IT’S ONLY FRIDAY, SUNDAY IS COMING : MY LESSONS FROM EASTER
MY LESSONS FROM EASTER
I have
learned many lessons at Easter. From the Sunday School lessons in the children
church, to the teenage bible lessons in the Royal Ambassadors and the adult
classes, I have heard many sermons about the love of the Christ on the cross.
The victory over death has sunk in so many times. So much that they have become
routine at Easter tide.
That was until
I saw something else that really got me thinking. It is a short video of about
three and a half minutes. It is titled “IT’S ONLY FRIDAY”.
I am not delving too much on the religious aspect of it.
I got
thinking about the application to everyday life.
It’s just Friday
and Jesus is praying, peter’s asleep while Judas is betraying. There are times
when people around you who are supposed to support you are either nonchalant or
unconcerned. Others you trust so much go behind you betraying you and setting
up rumour mills to spread falsehood about you.
Pilate is
struggling while the council is conspiring. People who have the power to help
you out knowing you are right and your traducers are wrong but because they don’t
want to rock the boat or offend the persecutor, struggle between the right and
the socially correct. They are the ones who will cry for you but won’t lift a
finger to save you from pain of persecution. The council conspiring represents the
ones who conspire and strive to make sure you are guilty, even in innocence. The
vilifying crowd are those who will declare you guilty without bothering to know
what you are supposed to have done wrong. Once the leader/ruler says you are
guilty, they bang the gavel too.
Disciples scatter
while Mary cries helplessly. When you are under persecution, people who
believed in you become distraught. They had relied on and depended on you, but
seeing you in captivity, they lose all hope. Mary, the mother who cannot
forsake his son looks on from the crowd and weep, helpless. There are the people
who feel your pain and wish there was something they could do to help but are
helpless.
Peter denies
you because he must survive. He fears he might face persecution if he is
associated with you. He feels pain
seeing you suffer. But he must deny you.The Romans
mocking and crowning you with thorns are those people, associates and acquaintances
who join in your persecution, some out of jealousy and some out of inferiority
complex. “Why can’t he save himself now?” “Isn’t he supposed to be Lord and
Master?”
Like Jesus
walking and stumbling to Calvary, you go through your pains and carry your
cross.
Evil is
winning, the bad one seems like it has conquered. Your disciples and well-wishers
start to doubt if you really were real.
The
principalities and evil people think they have conquered. They sing songs of
triumph. They celebrate that their schemes have been achieved.
Today you
may hang on the cross, forsaken by all and sundry.
But I tell
you, it’s only Friday.
Sunday is
coming.
Yes, Sunday
is coming.
You will resurrect.
You will triumph.
Your pride
will return double fold.
No matter
the soldier standing guard
Or the
mighty rock to secure the sepulcher.
Sunday is
coming.
Happy
Easter.
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