It is Now the Third Day

Luke 24: 13-35

A sermon preached by the Rev. Adrienne Koch Sunday, April 23, 2023

Jesus dies on Friday afternoon and rises by sunrise on Sunday, and this tells us that the third day is a metaphorical concept that does not depend upon 24-hour cycles or how many times the sun chases the moon. Jesus’ resurrection on the third day is like a compass pointing humanity toward where God is creating something new, and timing of the third day is always perfect, always right when it needs to be.

If circumstances in your life today have left you stranded in the pain and suffering of a Good Friday of the soul; If you feel like you’re still waiting in the darkness, the foreboding unknowing of Holy Saturday, let this third Sunday of Easter remind you that the third dayis still now; you haven’t missed Easter, your new life is pending, awaiting you to recognize as Pythagoras did, that “beatitude is found in the perfection of the numbers of the soul.”

My friends, it is NOW the third day. So let the strong arms of our Triune God, that Great Builder of the cosmos, carry your burdens away today. Jesus himself said told us that burdens are light for him to carry.