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40th Day of Lent: Holy Saturday - EXPECTANCY​

Holy Saturday is so pregnant with expectancy!

In the middle day between Death (Good Friday) and New Life (Easter Resurrection), Holy Saturday teaches us about the gap between​ ​​our Now, but not Yet.

Currently, "Now", in our present ​lives​, we live in the promise that death has been defeated by Christ, reconciling us back to God.

But we will not reach the full glory and perfection of the Lord until we are face to face with Him after death (the not yet).

Meanwhile, we remain expectant....
With hope that does not disappoint because​ God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us​ ​(​Romans 5:5)​.​

​And in the here and "now" of our silence and solitude, Holy Saturday is also a day of reflection to look back on the the Lent we have kept together, ​​and see where ​​we have become more intimate with God and have come to love Him more deeply.
Hopefully we can all say, we have grown, if only a little.

It is expectant progress, expectant progress of what's next towards living in the freedom of the Trinity's infinite loop of love that has been planned for each of us from before the creation of time.

This song, "So Will I" captures this beautiful expectancy:

https://youtu.be/oLURTvUQoTM

"If you left the grave behind SO WILL I!
I can see your heart in everything you've done
Every part designed in a work of art called love
If you gladly chose surrender SO WILL I"

Expect.
Surrender.
Leave the grave behind.


Lyn Woodruff
River Prayer Reflections Texting group


K!Mberly Creasman
charminfullbloom.blogspot.com

BTW, You are Incredible!

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