We are in the middle of Passion Week or Holy Week. Things really start escalating tomorrow, Maundy Thursday. There is a culmination of so many things, things Jesus revealed would happen but the disciples didn’t really understand, betrayal, murderous plots, denied denial, and so on.
We started truly anticipating the events of this week last Sunday, Palm Sunday, although the bright-sad season of Lent has been upon us for some time now. It is rather hard, though, to enter into hard core anticipation until Palm Sunday. But we can see Resurrection Sunday from here. We know how this story goes.
No one with Jesus could see Sunday anywhere in this week. None of the events were anticipated. No one knew the script.
Choose any particular moment during the next several days. Put yourself in the place of any one of the participants: a disciple, a Pharisee, Pilate, one of the Marys, Simon of Cyrene, even Judas or Peter. Can you see Sunday from there, from that moment through the eyes of that person?
We have the luxury of looking ahead from a place of knowing the story. We know how this ends. The only one who in the moment then that knew how the story ended was Jesus.
Whenever we are in a place that we “can’t see Sunday”, we can trust the One who already knows how the story ends, the One who CAN see Sunday.
Just Sayin' 