Daily Affirmations - Day 7 - Lowly and Victorious - In Between - Waiting the Coming Day
- Alisa B.
- Apr 18
- 2 min read
Day 7: In Between
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matthew 12:40).
"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors." ~ William Blake
The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 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.”
“Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard (Matthew 27:62-66).
I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With Him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, because You will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will You let your Faithful One see decay (Psalm 16:9-10)
I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption (Psalm 16:8-10 – NKJV).
In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what He suffered…
Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels He helps, but Abraham’s descendants (Hebrews 2:10, 14-16).
Low in the grave He lay,
Jesus, my Savior,
Waiting the coming day,
Jesus, my Lord!
~ Robert Lowry ~ 1874
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