ROOTED - Saturday, April 4, 2026

Psalm 88:4, 5

4 I am counted with them that go
down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom
thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Reflection: Now We Wait… Saturday

Written By:
Pastor Jesse Caro

The Westminster Greater Catechism states that, “Christ’s
humiliation after his death consisted in his being buried, and continuing in
the state of the dead, and under the power of death till the third day.” This
is a simple statement of fact: Jesus was buried, “under the power of death.” He
was not raised directly from the cross, but he endured the slow and agonizing
process of waiting. The grave. Darkness.

I know it must have been hard for the disciples. They did not
assume Jesus was going to be raised from the dead. All hope was lost… and they
waited in fear as they did not know what would happen next. They endured the
hopelessness that happens the day after great loss. The Psalmist put it so well
in the scripture above (especially in the King James): “I am counted with
them that go down into the pit! I am as a man that hath no strength!!” There
is no good reason to get out of bed. No answers. Only the crushing sadness of
death on the mind. The Psalmist continues: “free among the dead, like the
slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut
off from thy hand!!” The disciples must have felt a lot like that… cut off,
forgotten, and defeated.

Saturday is a day of waiting and contemplating. Patience! Is, indeed,
hope lost? Is there life after death, hope after despair? Ahhhh…. now we await
Sunday!

Prayer

Lord, may we sit in the sense of being unsettled, as the early
disciples did, anticipating the hope of a new day… the expectations of something
better.