Silence.
No miracles. No teaching. No visible movement. Just a sealed tomb and shattered expectations.
Everything feels finished. Nothing seems right. No one knows what is going on. Fear clouds the clear words of promise around the third day. The quiet is deafening.
This is the space we struggle with most: the in-between. When God seems silent. When answers don’t come. When we can't figure out a good purpose or plan. When hope feels buried.
But even here, God is working. Especially here, God continues to work all things for the good of those who love him.
So the question isn't, "does God still care?" Instead, the question is, "will I trust Him in the silence as much as I do in the obvious displays of his power?"
Everything he said would happen has happened. Why would we doubt now? He lived a perfect life in our place. He died a death he did not deserve so that he could be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. He promised he would rise after three days. Then all those who believe in him will also rise. This is the plan, whether today is loud or quiet. Do you trust him still?
Resurrection is coming. Don't be afraid!
Read: Matthew 27:57–66
As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. 59 Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. 61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”
65 “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
GO DEEPER:
Where in my life does it feel like God is silent?
What promises am I holding onto in the waiting?