It’s Five Minute Friday with Kate and the gang. Each Friday we are given a word prompt. We write and link-up over here. Join us if you’d like, there’s always room for more! Our word prompt today is: RELIEF
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With Easter behind us, we move onto the next event. There’s the house to get ready for warmer weather, graduations, summer planning, vacations and more holidays.
I’ve been thinking this week about what it must have been like for the disciples and Mary after the resurrection, after their first Easter. I don’t think it was the same for us and them.
They had been in the depths of grief and uncertainty. Their dear friend, Teacher, Master and the One they believed to be their Messiah was gone…. dead.
But Jesus showed up on the scene and Life returned. What a turnaround of events. The emotional ride had to be off the charts.
Can you imagine the “What now?” questions Jesus’ followers struggled through during those days of not knowing…. when they felt He was gone?
We have our own moments when heaven seems silent and we wonder, “What now?” Yet just like the disciples, relief and certainty came when Jesus showed up on the scene.
He will show up on our scene. It may not be in our timing or with the answer we are expecting but we can trust that He is and will always be there for our good.
Just as Jesus came to bring reassurance to those who had walked with Him through His darkest hours, He walks with us through ours. After bringing relief to those closest to Him, He empowered them to continue on living with these words…
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go…
Go into all that I have prepared for you…. Fulfill the plan and purpose I have laid out for you…
And though you will have some not-so-great-days … And you will walk hard roads and come through ugly messes… even though there will be all that… I am with you always to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28:20)
We have that assurance. For even on the days when death stares us in the face and all around us there is dark and confusion, Jesus is on the scene.
On our darkest day we can trust His words, “I am with you always even to the very end.”
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Hi Rachel, I am your neighbor at FMF this week, I really loved your post thank you for sharing. Amen I am so thankful that our Papa and King will show up on the scene, its true when Jesus shows up we can breathe again. Many blessing Aliyah (setapartwarrior.me)
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Thanks for stopping by and your words of encouragement!
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Rachel, beautiful post! Death does not have the last word but God does. Those words “What now?” are a question I think we all ponder. But Jesus always shows up on the scene even when we don’t even know that we need him to show up.
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That’s true! Thanks for stopping by!
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‘He will show up on our scene.’ I’m so reassured by this statement… it’s going to resonate with me for some time. Thanks for sharing it!
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“Relief and certainty came when Jesus showed up on the scene.” Loved that, Rachel. He is so faithful to show up and answer our “what now” questions when we set them before Him – when we wait on Him … which isn’t always easy. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to walk beside Him so closely and then have Him gone and out of sight. Like Mary, it makes me want to cling to Him. Blessed by your words today.
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Thank you, Tiffany! Yes, I am learning that waiting and trusting bit with Him this year and it has been eye opening to me how quick I am to take back the reigns and try and fix it myself instead of looking to Him for guidance and being okay with the waiting period. I hear the first step to fixing the problem is seeing it and admitting it! 🙂 I’m looking to grow in this place of trust! Thanks for stopping by!
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Amen! I needed to hear this today. God will show up–in his time, for his purpose and in his own way. This is good news, indeed. All I have to do is trust and obey and wait patiently.
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