In The Meantime | Third Day Faith for the Second Day

The meantime is called mean for a reason.

That place between where God called you from and where God has called you to can be brutal...

The desert...the valley...the second day...the mean time where you wonder 

• Did I really hear God?
• Am I still on the right road, or have I gotten too far off track?
• Has God finally realized how much I don't deserve what He promised to do for me?

I've been there...more than once. Thank God I'm not the only one.

I realized years ago that the Bible is FULL of meantime testimonies. There is even a day so mean and dark that not even the disciples closest to Jesus talk about it, even though it's crucial to what I consider to be "The Greatest Gangsta Move of All Time" aka the Resurrection testimony. 

That 2nd day - the day between crucifixion and resurrection was so traumatic for the disciples that none of the gospels actually cover it.

Imagine the day after the crucifixion for the disciples/followers of Jesus...the fear, the pain... the overthinking....trying to recall everything Jesus ever taught them...questioning if the last 3 years had been worth it if this is where it ends.

Judas didn't make it to the Third Day- the torment , guilt,  and shame was too much for him, even though his action was just as predestined as the rest of the prophecy and, in fact, was necessary to its fulfillment. 

But, for a minute, imagine if he had survived the 2nd day the way Peter did...Jesus died for ALL OF OUR SINS; Peter's denial AND Judas' betrayal.

So both moments are significant for me...Jesus predicted both acts- he told Judas to go quickly and do what he must...and he told Peter he would deny him 3 times before the rooster crowed... and that means both instances were part of the bigger plan. Without the betrayal of Judas there would have been no arrest and then no denial and no crucifixion- the series of events that led to the greatest gangsta move of all time aka the Resurrection- were predestined which must mean that Peter's redemption was baked in...and perhaps Judas' as well.... had he survived the Second day.

Full disclosure, I know how crazy that may sound to most people. I'm not a minister. Not even a Bible scholar. I am far from accredited or qualified in the ways that matter to most when it comes to these things.

I'm just someone that has been blessed enough to have gotten a revelation from God about who He is and who I am in His eyes, decided to believe Him, and now try to show up in those truths as best I can on a daily basis.

I'm a "treasured, beloved" child of God trying to walk it out, and I know from experience that the trauma of the second day is real. 

In the darkness of the second day, the devil thought he won. In his usual arrogant, self-centered fashion, Satan totally missed the point (again) and forgot the rest of the Word God had spoken in the Garden all those centuries ago about how the Son of Man would bust his head (yes, I'm paraphrasing) thusly setting the stage for the "L" that would take him out for all eternity!

I've been in days so dark I couldn't see my way out...and the promise of the Third day has saved my life more than once.

Thanks to the testimonies of those who have gone before me- both biblically and literally- I know that the Word of God is just as alive and real in the darkness of the second day, and that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living... if I can hold on.

"Hold on/everything will be okay/whats the matter girl/did you forget to pray...So you cried all night/ and you sighed all day/ but don't give up/ hold on... Help is on the way" ~ Betty Wright, Help Is On the Way

Transformation is a process that often requires disruption and deconstruction.  The world we live in is definitely going thru it. Like the disciples all those centuries ago, much of what we thought we could count on is shifting like sinking sand. Thankfully, unlike them on their Second day, we know that God's Word is just as solid in the mean time... and I pray we stand on it through the night knowing that our Third day is coming.

~ May we all survive the Second day.