Middle Moments

Middle Moments
Never forget that Jesus was just as much “Jesus” - our Savior and our Deliverer - on the 2nd of those three days as he was on the first and the last. In the “middle” of doing his destiny-changing work of redemption, he did not lose his identity, significance, status, or anointing.

Furthermore, Jesus didn’t go straight from Deliverer (Good Friday) to Victor and Conqueror (Resurrection). The “middle day” happened, and it’s just as important as the first day and the third!

Too much of the modern Christian teaching and preaching focuses only on celebrating our final victories. But, if we only see value in the “high” moments, we start to believe that God is missing or careless during the “middle” of our journeys. If we feel “alive” only on the “first” and “third” days of our trials, then we’ll start believing that we are less than conquerors on the “second” days. We tend to despise the processes of our deliverances, and often fall into the trap of feeling and thinking that during the processes we are all alone and that our lives are void of meaning, purpose, and power.

God was God all three days of Jesus’ trial from crucifixion to Resurrection, and because God was still God, even during that cold, vague, non-eventful day in the grave, Jesus – not even for a moment – was never anything less than God’s Son, our Savior, our Redeemer, and our Lord!

…In a “middle moment”? See and celebrate the power, meaning, mystery, and purpose of where you are, now!