It Will Be Well: Musings for Holy Saturday
I spent Good Friday binge watching "The Chosen" show online.
I don't think I finished any episode without having shed tears at some point.
Many times, I feel, in movie/tv show adaptions of any of the Gospels of even the Book of Acts, we get a very "so-holy-he-is-untouchable" Jesus and very elderly apostles. None of these were present in The Chosen. Not only were the disciples closer to what their actual ages probably were, there was a deep humanity to them and to Jesus. A humanity that sometimes gets lost when we read the Gospels because, let's be honest, the Gospels are only snippets of 3 years worth of Jesus Christ's ministry. John himself says:
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. --John 21:25 ESV
It was so refreshing to see Jesus actually depicted as a normal person because he is fully-God and fully-Man and in an attempt to remind people via media that he is God sometimes the fact that he was also human gets lost.
I don't think I finished any episode without having shed tears at some point.
Many times, I feel, in movie/tv show adaptions of any of the Gospels of even the Book of Acts, we get a very "so-holy-he-is-untouchable" Jesus and very elderly apostles. None of these were present in The Chosen. Not only were the disciples closer to what their actual ages probably were, there was a deep humanity to them and to Jesus. A humanity that sometimes gets lost when we read the Gospels because, let's be honest, the Gospels are only snippets of 3 years worth of Jesus Christ's ministry. John himself says:
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. --John 21:25 ESV
It was so refreshing to see Jesus actually depicted as a normal person because he is fully-God and fully-Man and in an attempt to remind people via media that he is God sometimes the fact that he was also human gets lost.
Yet at the end of the first season (only one season has been made so far) I was deeply struck by the fact that this gentle, beautiful, miraculous man who heals the lame and banishes demons and forgives sins in the same man who gets crucified. This gentle man who laughed and loved and left people changed.
The same man whose death is commemorated on Good Friday.
The same man who's body lies today, Holy Saturday, in a tomb.
The harrowing of hell is taking place. Death is being defeated. Tomorrow will be a new day, a day newer and truer than anything we could ever believe or hope or imagine. Tomorrow is a day we long for, anticipating in some many ways; and in the darkness of Holy Saturday I am reminded of Julian of Norwich' words, "All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well."
Even in the midst of this world's chaos, tomorrow is coming; and it will be a day when we can truly say "It is well with my soul."
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