A Prayer about Silent Saturday
A Prayer about Silent Saturday
He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever. Revelation 21:4
Heavenly Father,
It’s the Saturday before Easter,
the day Christians historically call “Silent Saturday.”
That first Saturday after Jesus died
would have been silent indeed;
not only was it the Sabbath,
but for all who loved and followed Jesus,
it was a day of confusion, doubt, and deep grief.
Unlike us, they didn’t know what would happen on Sunday.
Father, on what may be a busy Saturday
for many of us,
as we take kids to Easter egg hunts
or run to the grocery store
for last-minute brunch items,
I pray we will take time to be silent,
to remember how tragic our story would have been
if this story had ended on Saturday.
I pray that we will also remember those
who are walking in seasons of Silent Saturdays,
days of dark grief and devastating sorrow.
Even as we remember,
may we glimpse the rays of resurrection hope
rising to crowd out the darkness.
Even as we remember,
may we look forward to the day
of no more mourning, no more sorrow, no more tears (Revelation 21:4).
In Jesus’ hopeful name. Amen.
Read Matthew 27:62-66; Revelation 21:1-5.
Note: This prayer is based on my Holy Week devotional, The Gospel Day-by-Day. Get your Holy Week devotional e-book free now. Link in profile or copy/paste link into browser: http://eepurl.com/b__teX.’
![When’s the last time you highlighted your weakness?
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Cor. 12:10
All-Powerful God,
We confess,
we in Western culture
crave power, control, and independence.
The last thing we want
is to be seen as weak.
And yet, weakness is the way of Christ,
so it must be our way as well.
The apostle Paul understood that,
so in the face of accusations
that he wasn’t an apostle,
he countered the boasting of the “super-apostles”
with some boasting of his own:
“If I must boast,
I will boast of the things
that show my weakness” (2 Cor. 11:30).
And then he mentions how he was lowered in a basket through the window of a wall in Damascus, of all places,
a place he went to persecute Jews only to be knocked down on the road,
struck blind, by his Lord and Savior himself.
Paul shares many other weaknesses in 2 Corinthians,
a book that’s all about weakness as the way
of followers of Christ.
He asked that you would relieve him from a “thorn in the flesh,”
but you did not.
Instead, you said,
“My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in your weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9).
Lord, we know we really are weak —
[for each of these areas, name any weaknesses you have]
weak in our bodies,
weak in our work,
weak in our wills,
Weak in our faith,
Weak in our hope,
Weak in our love.
We believe
that you your power is made perfect
in and through our weakness.
Help our unbelief.
In Jesus’s name. Amen.
Read 2 Corinthians 11:30-12:10.
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