Friday... There must be some resolve within us.

Psalms 18:46 (NLT), "The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted!"

Friday... There must be some resolve within us.

Yes, when we are going through difficult times there must be something within us that keeps us going. That why I love reading the Psalms. David was going through some tough times when he wrote Psalms 18. Verse 46 is a resolve that kept him going. He writes, "The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted!" And in our difficult times that fact is also a great resolve and we need to stop and meditate on that fact.

Now Luke wrote something Jesus said to his twelve disciples that if they had just listened to part of it they would have been shaken. And we do that so many times. Somebody says something that catches us by surprise and we only listen to a part of it. not the whole thing.

Here is what Jesus said to his twelve friends. Luke 9:21-22 says, "Jesus warned his disciples not to tell anyone who he was. 'The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things,' he said. "He will be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law.'" And if that wasn't enough, he says, "He will be killed." And that may have been all they heard. I mean, on this day, this Good Friday, the day that Jesus was crucified they were nowhere to be found.

Well, I remember when he said he was going to be killed. I didn't really believe it but it looks like we have been following a loser. Yes, he was unbelievable. I remember that day that he fed those 5,000 plus people with five loaves and two fish. That was something. And then all those people that he healed. And then that day that we went up on that mountain and that voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my chosen One. Listen to Him." But here he has been killed. Well that is what he said. We should have believed him.

But that wasn't all that he said. Yes he said, "He will be killed" but he continued, "but on the third day he will be raised from the dead." Yes, that is also what he said but they didn't really hear that. And that can be so true of us when we are going through tough times. 

Yes, this is Good Friday but they should have been celebrating not running away in despair and afraid. They should have been reminding each other of what he had also said, "but on the third day he will be raised from the dead."

That was a not something that they had resolved within themselves.  Yes, he will be killed. That is apart of the story but it is not the end. The end is, "but on the third day he will be raised from the dead."

Even on Good Friday we need to celebrate what David said, "The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted!" That is the Good News. Yes, that must be our resolve even in difficult times. Yes, Jesus sacrifices his life, but "The Lord lives!" And that is where our salvation comes from and that must be exalted. 

Even in our difficult days, "The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted!" Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning