What If This Is THAT Week?

I’m going to give you guys a hypothetical.

What if this week, thousands of years ago, we were bystanders of the events leading up to Jesus death, life, and resurrection? What if we actually got to hear Him speak, see His love for us, and watch Him suffer? Think about what you would feel and the weight of His sacrifice.

What if I told you the week we just lived through is thought to be the same week Jesus actually walked through thousands of years ago? The same calendar days!

This Easter felt different for me because of this and I’ve found myself truly sitting under the weight of it.

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This week, we observed Holy Week, the final days of Jesus' earthly life as told in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

As I was reading Scripture, sitting with it, I came across something pretty cool. Scholars, historians, and theologians believe Holy Week may have happened on this exact week, down to the days!

Yes, we don’t know for sure. But it’s studied through sources like the Shroud of Turin and historical timelines. As we know, Jesus is one of the best-documented people of the ancient world.

And whether this detail is exact or not it made the Easter feel less like something I simply observe, and more like something I am in, just like I had you do at the beginning of this post!

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If you need a quick refresher of the Easter story, here is a quick timeline of events:

Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey (John 12:13).

The same people shouting “Hosanna!” would soon scream “Crucify Him.”

He sits at a table with His disciples (Luke 22:19).

Breaking bread knowing betrayal is already in motion.

He prays in the garden, overwhelmed to the point of sweat like blood (Luke 22:44).

Still choosing obedience.

He’s then beaten, mocked, and hung on a cross.

And around 3 PM on Friday He says,

“It is finished.” (John 19:30)

Then silence.

A long, confusing, heavy Saturday.

Until Sunday morning when Mary and Mary hear,

“He is not here; He has risen.” (Luke 24:6)

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Easter is not about getting dressed up in fancy dresses to take photos you’ll post on Instagram.

It is about suffering and salvation.

Of betrayal and love.

Of death and life.

It is the moment the world believed it was over and God declared it was finished in a completely different way.

What Jesus carried to the cross was not just pain, it was weight. The weight of sin. The weight of separation. The weight of what we could never carry ourselves.

And He did not drop it.

He finished it.

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So, how do we take Easter with us past today?

1. When people switch up on you stay rooted.

Jesus was praised one day and rejected the next, and He never changed who He was.

You don’t need to perform for approval or wallow in rejection. Stay grounded in who God says you are.

2. Love people even when it’s uncomfortable.

Jesus sat at the table with Judas. He knew and still loved.

Not everyone in your life will handle your heart well, but you are still called to walk in love, not be bitter.

3. Your “Friday” is not your final outcome.

Friday looked like a loss or the end.

Think about the thing in your life that feels dead, broken, or over. God is not finished with it.

4. Don’t quit in the silence of Saturday.

Saturday is the part we don’t talk about enough. It is waiting, confusion, “God, where are You?”

Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean God isn’t working.

5. Remember, Sunday always comes.

The stone rolled away. Jesus rose. Death was defeated.

What feels impossible right now is not beyond God. Resurrection is still what He does.

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Easter gives us:

A Savior who willingly entered suffering.

A cross that was not accidental.

A resurrection that was not symbolic.

A love that held the full weight of humanity, and did not let go.

THAT is what makes Holy Week so hard to rush through.

What if I said that at around 3 PM on a Friday like the one we just lived Jesus chose the cross with you in mind?

Not a future version of you.

Not a cleaned-up version of you.

You. Right here. Right now.

And if that’s true, which it is, then Easter isn’t just something we celebrate once a year. It’s something we take into every single week of our lives.

Because no matter what your week, day, month, year or years looks like, Sunday is still coming.