REV. Zachery Sarrault, Associate PASTOR
Pastor’s Corner for November 10-16, 2024
What are you waiting for?
(Hebrews 9:24-28)
“What are you waiting for?” How often have you spoke those words? Maybe it’s to your kids as you’re trying to get out the door in the morning. Or to your spouse as you figure out what you’re doing for date night. Maybe you say it quietly as you stand in a checkout line, staring at someone painfully slow in front of you. Maybe you yell it at your phone, waiting for a video to load, or the helpline to finally answer your question. Maybe you think it as you sit in the cold, waiting for a deer to walk out of the woods (ok, that one might just be me!).
We are a notoriously impatient people. God’s people always have been. We are impatient with our family, friends, complete strangers, and even God. When we are impatient, when we grow tired of waiting, sin is always creeping close. We become irritable, angry, depressed, anxious, sometimes fearful. When things don’t happen according to our timing and the way we want it to go, we inevitably treat people the wrong way. We end up hurting those that God has given us.
None of us like to wait. But, as people of God, we are all waiting for something. There is one last promise that God has given that we wait for. We are waiting for Christ to return. That is the final act of God that, not only do we wait for, we long for it. How are you doing at waiting for Jesus? Is it even something that crosses your mind?
The writer of Hebrews says that Jesus is coming for “those who are eagerly waiting for Him” (Heb. 4:28). We look forward to Jesus’ coming back! That will be a grand and glorious day like none of us have ever imagined before. It will be a loud, triumphant, beautiful day of eternal victory and celebration! On that day, heaven and earth will be united eternally, God will physically dwell with His people, and we will no longer have to wait for anything. No more pain, anger, depression, anxiety, or fear. All of it will be gone.
So, what does that mean for us today? It means we get to participate in God’s restoration of all things right now. Waiting for God = living with God. It is always the same thing. Our lives are eternal now, because we know who is coming and we don’t have to wait to live with Him. Jesus is with us now, preparing us for the final day, when all waiting is over.
Your eagerly waiting brother in Christ,
Pastor Zach Sarrault
Ordination and Installation of Pastor Zachery Sarrault (July 18, 2021):
Sunday was a great day at RLC! We celebrated the Ordination and Installation of our new Associate Pastor Zachery Sarrault. It was a beautiful service with a heartfelt sermon by his father, Pastor Joel Sarrault. Congratulations and welcome, Pastor Zach! Thank you to all who participated in this special day.
Pastor Sarrault Ordination and Installation
Pastor Zachery Sarrault Ordination and Installation Bulletin
From Pastor Zach (July 16, 2021):
Hey Resurrection Family!
Kelsey and I are finally here! We have finished up at St. Louis, seen family in Michigan, and moved into our new home. After all of that traveling and living out of suitcases, we couldn’t be happier to finally be back to something comfortable. Comfort is always something nice to hold on to. All of us have something that makes us comfortable, whether it be a family member or friend, a good book or fishing pole, a quilting machine or a wood shed, we all have our go-to comfort places. This is part of being human! We love comfort!
The thing with comfort is that sometimes we get too comfortable. We can settle in and tell ourselves that we never wish to see any change. “Life would be perfect if I could just stay in my recliner with Tom Sawyer all day.” Or whatever your comfort may be. Sadly, we know that this isn’t how life works. No matter how much we enjoy our comforts, ‘real life’ happens and it disrupts those little joys. But, is it ‘real life’ or is it God, calling us into His mission to do more than just the comfortable?
Jesus never led a life of comfort. From the manger to the cross and even the empty tomb, Jesus’ life was one of challenge and the uncomfortable. When one of the scribes declared that he would follow Jesus, all Jesus had to say was, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head” (Matt. 8:20). Kind of an odd response, one that rightly scared away the scribe. Probably would have scared me too!
So, what does this mean for us? Are we supposed to throw away all of our earthly comforts and live lives of asceticism? Not at all! But we are called to know where these comforts come from and who our ultimate comfort is. In all things, comfort or challenge, our Lord and Savior stands before us, behind us, and beside us. As Jesus prepared His disciples for life after His death and resurrection, Jesus told His followers, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
There is our ultimate comfort! Not in our little hide-a-ways or indulgences, but in the One who has overcome all sin and who has promised us peace. Our comfort is in the faith that we have through Christ’s death and resurrection. Our comfort is in the kingdom of God that has already been given to us! That is a comfort that is never changing and never ending. No matter what God has in store the Sarraults in North Carolina, we know that the comfort of our Lord will always prevail!
In the comfortable and the uncomfortable, but always in Christ,
Pastor Zach Sarrault
From Pastor Jonathan (July 15, 2021):
There's a new face at Resurrection! Seminarian Zach Sarrault and wife Kelsey made it down to Cary last Monday, and soon-to-be "Pastor Zach" is already taking part in leadership team activities here at RLC. He will serve as Associate Pastor at Resurrection... meaning he will be working full-time in all aspects of ministry: preaching and teaching, visiting the homebound, discipling others, showing up at youth events, leading school and preschool chapel services, making friends in his neighborhood, evangelizing... and doing it all as one who is privileged to be an Under-Shepherd of the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. We are very blessed to have him and Kelsey in our midst!
Though the Sarraults hail from Michigan they know a little bit about our area already since Zach served as Vicar at Hope Lutheran Church in Wake Forest from 2019 to 2020. At church you can find Pastor Zach in the Associate Pastor's office, next door to the main office on the left side. I look forward to working with Pastor Zach and seeing him welcomed as warmly by all of you as Juli and I were not so long ago! May God bless and further your ministry among us, Pastor!