Living in a Saturday world

Here’s a post I meant to make this past Saturday, the day that stands between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Philip Yancey writes eloquently that we live in a Saturday world, a world that stands between the hope announced on Resurrection Day and the time of the end when Christ will return and reign victorious. He writes:

“What the disciples experienced in small scale - three days, in grief over one man who died on a cross - we now live through on a cosmic scale. Human history grinds on, between the time of promise and fulfillment…It’s Saturday on planet earth. Will Sunday ever come?”

Yancey, of course, believes that it will. Through the miracle of Amazon’s search-inside-a -book, you can view the page from The Jesus I Never Knew that contains this passage here.

Brett McCracken draws from this same idea in recent article at Relevant: “We exist in a Saturday world. Between Friday and Sunday, when the world was still, the tears fresh, the grave sealed—the darkest day past, a brighter morning imminent—but until then … waiting.”

Come Lord Jesus.

April 18, 2006 · Filed Under Books, Christ, Discipleship

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