A Heavy Holy Week. The Weight of the Wait.

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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 feels more and more palpable. Pure evil is on display in blatantly obvious ways. It can be discouraging and disheartening, and it can feel so incredibly weighty.


But take heart, heaviness leads to holiness. 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.


We reflect on this story year after year — 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 before His resurrection and triumph 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 again and again. It’s a weighty wait, but we can be certain of our fate, if we embrace the price He paid to lift that weight off you and me. He set us free if we 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 sin — a disease far more dangerous and deadly than any other disease we’ll ever face.


Heavy and Holy. A wait in which we feel the weight of our sin give way to the weight of Glory.

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The WEIGHT of the WAIT: An Election Eve Reflection

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The WEIGHT of the WAIT: An Election Eve Reflection

Well, I don’t know about you, but I will surely be glad when this election is over. Don’t get me wrong, it is an important election, and I feel very passionate about the platforms, policies, and personalities that are on the ballot, but regardless of the outcome, my hope will always remain in Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. He will forever sit on the throne, regardless of who sits in the White House.

Waiting for anything carries a weight we can’t quite explain.

But the weight I‘ve felt lately is more than a heaviness of waiting on the results of an election. It’s more of a heaviness of waiting on Heaven. A weight in the wait that burdens the heart and troubles the mind, while simultaneously offering a yoke that is light and a peace that passes all understanding. When we wrestle with that weight in the natural, we find chaos and confusion, but when we surrender that weight to a supernatural God, we find rest, peace, and hope in knowing He is in control even when this world spins out of control.

The weight of the wait tells only part of the story. When we wait for Heaven, we experience the weight of glory.

“Now, if we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object […] If a transtemporal, transfinite good is our real destiny, then any other good on which our desire fixes must be in some degree fallacious, must bear at best only a symbolical relation to what will truly satisfy.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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