Holy Week is a reminder of many things, but one we often forget is rest. God did it, and so should we.
Here’s a tough one: If Jesus died and was in the tomb by Friday night, spent Saturday there and rose Sunday morning before the women arrived, how can we say he was in the tomb for “three days and three nights?”
The answer is more than just a good lesson on why we shouldn’t read Western assumptions into the Bible. There’s also a worldview gem buried in this detail of Holy Week: a call to rest, not just from something like work, politics or the news cycle, but in someone.
Ours is a culture that’s forgotten how to rest. The political environment is frantic, and social media make us feel like we’re always missing out on something. It’s tempting to spend even the Lord’s Day worked up over the stories in our newsfeeds.
At least in some ways, this makes our culture similar to the first Holy Week.