Sunday’s coming!

And so, because it was the day of preparation for the Jewish Passover and since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there. John 19 v 42

Today, in my daily reading, the writer quoted a Japanese proverb which says,

“We can never see the sunrise by looking towards the west.”

It reminded me that earlier in the week, my husband sent a photo of Fairhead, which I took on Palm Sunday 2020, to the Spanish girlfriend of our son Joel, who hopes to visit Ireland for the first time in the summer, saying “ Beautiful sunset over Fairhead”.

The problem was, the photo was taken at sunrise and not sunset and if he had stopped to think that Fairhead lies east of Ballycastle, he would have realised that!
Sometimes in life, we are looking in the wrong direction and cannot see where God wants to direct our gaze. We look inwards at our problems and worries when God wants us to look to Him. We look at the world with all its distractions, when God wants us to focus on His Son who died for our sins.
Today, on Good Friday, it is important to look to Jesus on the cross, suffering for our sins, but God wants us to walk in the hope and joy that the resurrected Christ brings to us on Easter Sunday.