IT’S ONLY FRIDAY, SUNDAY IS COMING : MY LESSONS FROM EASTER

IT’S ONLY FRIDAY, SUNDAY IS COMING

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.