A Heavy Holy Week (The Weight of the Wait)
/Can you feel it? The weight of sin weighing more and more heavily on this world we live in. What used to seem subtle now feels flagrant. Pure evil is on display in blatantly obvious ways. It is wearying, because it is so weighty.
But take heart, heaviness leads to holiness.
Those who cried of “Hosanna,” which literally means “save us,” on Palm Sunday, shouted “Crucify Him” days later. It’s a heaviness too hard to explain, and yet it leads to a holiness that will forever remain. He sealed the deal with a empty tomb at the end of a heavy, Holy Week.
The weight of the wait during Holy Week leads to the weight of Glory when our joy will be made complete. Jesus waited through the last week of His earthly life with the weight of His Father’s plan so heavy on His heart because it was all in His hands.
The triumphal entry on Palm Sunday led to the triumphal victory on Resurrection Sunday. Jesus’s final days. His cruel journey to the cross. His passionate plea with his final breath, “Father, forgive them.” His temporary time in the tomb giving way to eternal life because He triumphed over it all, once and for all, to deliver us all from sin, forgiving us for what had been harshly put on Him, reconciling us to the Father once again.
A story so heavy. A story so Holy. A story our finite minds will never fully comprehend, and yet our heavy hearts experience the weight of the wait again and again.
His sacrifice paid the ultimate price to lift that eternal weight off you and me. He set us free, if we just believe.
Same story. Same outcome. Same power. Same HOPE. A story that was foretold, fulfilled, retold, and revealed — giving NEW LIFE & HOPE to all who believe and are set free from sin.
Heavy and Holy. A wait in which the weight of our sin gives way to the weight of Glory.
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.” (Romans 8:18-2, ESV)
This heavy, Holy week, let’s reflect on Christ’s journey to the cross and rejoice in His victory over the grave. There will always be a weight we feel while we wait for His Glory to be revealed.
It is finished, but He is not.
We have been set free, but now we wait on Eternity. A weight in the wait that burdens the heart and troubles the mind, while also offering a yoke that is light and a peace that passes all understanding.
The weight of the wait is both heavy and Holy — a tension we can trust because of the love God has for us.