Resting in the Unknown

Lent on the Run — Day 40

Apr 19, 2025

So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away.
— Matthew 27:59-60

In the practice of church, today is probably one of the more awkward days on the church liturgical calendar. Day 2 of Jesus being dead. The day between Good Friday (Christ’s Death) and Easter Sunday (The celebration of the Resurrection).

Yet this day is meant to be awkward—weird in many ways. It occupies that liminal space of true death—before the hope of resurrection occurs. Yet this nature of unknown is where the hope and promise of resurrection and salvation are lived.

This time of waiting and often silence is anticipatory, we know what’s coming—in a sense that is—yet, we still struggle to see or even trust in the outcome. However, that is what is needed most in this time.

To rest in the unknown is to trust in the mysterious work that God is doing, not just in seasons of waiting, but throughout our lives.

Like those moments after a race is done, you have crossed the finish line, and the pain of you effort takes over. Another race feels far out of the cards, yet, to me, the signs of a mature runner is one that doesn’t make a deicision about “the next race” until they have recovered.

Very often we want to say, “Oh I’m never doing that again…” or “YES!!! Let’s run that back around.”

However, resting in the unknown, is trusting the mystery of that liminal time after a race.

What comes next?

God knows, and lets rest in the silence, the unknown, the waiting, so that we may better here and be ready for the voice that will call out in the resurrection.

Today we still grieve, but there is hope when we rest and trust in God’s presence and even mystery.

Let yourself settle into the silence of this day, and listen for God’s whisper.