56 Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.
The Saturday after Good Friday and before Easter Sunday often gets overlooked. Why is Saturday significant? Good Friday is a day of mourning, but also a day a Hope for what is to come. Today, in our society we tend to gloss over days/times that don’t have “something to do” or significance.
There is great significance in Silent or Holy Saturday. It should be a day of rest. After Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome watched were they laid Jesus, they returned home to prepare for spices to anoint him after the Sabbath. It was important in their culture to observe the Sabbath as a day of rest. Resting on the Sabbath is a commandment that is often overlooked even today:
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. 11 For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.
Let today, be a day of rest. Let’s rest in The Lord first and foremost. Rest in our HOPE. Rest physically, mentally, emotionally. Then tomorrow can be a great day of celebration!
The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Lk 23:56). (Ex 20:10–11).: Holman Bible Publishers.
