I like to watch the NCAA basketball tournament.  But sometimes I’m busy when a game I really want to see is on.  When that happens, I record the game so I can watch it later.  I try to avoid hearing who won the game before I watch it, but today I saw a news clip that let me know the winning team.  Knowing the ending really changed my reactions during the game.  When you know the finale, you can relax during the tense times.  Even when it seems all is lost, you can know for a fact that it is all going to come out perfect in the end.  This makes me think of Good Friday.  I can’t imagine how the disciples felt when it was happening in real time, but here’s the good news for us: we know the ending!  Friday had to be a dark, frightening time for the disciples, but we now know Sunday is coming.  And Sunday changes everything!

In Peter 1:3-4 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  In His great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade-kept in heaven for you.”  When things don’t look the way they should and life is harder than we would choose it to be, we can look forward knowing there are better days ahead of us.  Heaven, which is too wonderful to imagine is assured, and there are better days to expect here on earth too.  Psalm 27:13 says, “I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”  So if your Friday is dark, look expectantly to Sunday.  It’s coming!