The minutiae of “Holy Week” …

How long can you take a plan and keep the execution of it flowing and reach a pristine result, exactly as planned?

While you think about that, let’s turn our thoughts back to the fact we’ve stepped into “Holy Week,” but not every day seems to be as interesting to some. We started with the excitement of the “triumphant” entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, followed by the startling drama of His clearing the Temple.

Then we yawn.

The excitement turns more to a building tension until “Maundy Thursday,” and then the most dramatic events of Holy Week unfold at a rapid clip.

This part of Holy Week that some yawn about is the minutiae of executing a perfect plan for a perfect finish.

We talk about God having plans for us, but God did, indeed, have a remarkable, perfect masterplan that He crafted before the creation of the world. This point in “Holy Week” brings us to the final steps — the minutiae — of executing that perfect plan:

“All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure,” Ephesians 1:3-5.

How long did God perfectly choreograph all the details required to reach this point when the full fruition of His plan would be realized in just a few days? Scholars suggest it took more than 4,000 years, yet not a single detail was missed to move us to this point in history, the place and time when the Son of God could offer Himself as the sacrifice for sin, defeat death, and be the means of our being reconciled to the Father so we could realize God’s plan of adopting us into His own family.

“The A-Team” was an action-adventure television series broadcast on NBC in the 1980’s. The main character had a catch phrase he would say when, after it seemed things were going wrong, they turned out exactly as planned. He would stick a cigar in his mouth and say, “I love it when a plan comes together!”

After thousands of years of slowly unfolding a detailed plan for our rescue and reconciliation, the final details were now being achieved, and the plan would soon be accomplished. I can just image the hosts of heaven — if not God Himself! — looking at “Holy Week” and thinking, “I love it when a plan comes together!”

By the way, this spectacular, divine devotion to detail in making a pre-creation masterplan come together perfectly should be great encouragement for our trusting God for all His promises in what is yet to come:

“And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns,” Philippians 1:6.

Don’t yawn over God taking His time to work out all the minutiae of doing what He has promised; just as His plan for our redemption was carried out perfectly after thousands of years after its inception, His plan for your full and complete reconciliation with Him will be completed just as fully and perfectly.

Don’t you just love it when a plan is coming together?

Scotty