Blake Robert Templeton examines Holy Saturday, when the disciples grieved Christ's death and thought God had failed. Their real mistake was misreading the plan. When believers hit dead seasons, they blame God, but Templeton argues God lets our narratives die so a deeper victory can emerge.
Have you ever noticed this on Easter? Like, when Christ died, the disciples didn't just lose Jesus for a day. They lost their whole understanding of what God was doing. Think about that for a minute. That's what made Saturday so heavy. It wasn't just grief. It was total confusion, because in their mind, if God was really in this, it wasn't supposed to look like this. And if we're honest, I mean, we've all been there. You had the timeline, the script in your head of how God was gonna conquer something or move in your life, and then the whole thing hit a tomb season, like deadness. And you're sitting there trying to figure out like, where did God fail? Or my interpretation, did I miss something? I mean, bro, that's a nugget. A lot of times God doesn't fail. Your interpretation does. And Holy Saturday is where he lets your version die so that you can finally see his in the unseen. See, sometimes God has to bury your interpretations before he can reveal his victory.
