April Fools Day and Holy Week Walk Into the Same Wednesday

You Genuinely Cannot Make This Up

So, here we are. Wednesday of Holy Week—the most sacred stretch of the Christian calendar. This is the week that changed everything, the week where the entire story of humanity pivots. And today, of all days, is also April Fools Day.

Of all the weeks. Of all the days. April Fools Day lands on Holy Wednesday. And honestly, y’all, I think God has a sense of humor.

Let’s sit with this for a second. The religious leaders thought they had wrapped it all up. They had the arrest, the trial, the cross. They had the tomb sealed tight, soldiers stationed, and a rock so big nobody was moving it.

They thought the story was over. They thought the movement was finished. They thought the carpenter from Nazareth was handled.

But then Sunday morning showed up. The tomb was empty. The stone was rolled away. The grave clothes were folded neatly, like someone tidied up before leaving. The soldiers? Useless. The seal? Irrelevant.

Death itself? Pranked.

If Easter Sunday isn’t the greatest plot twist in human history, I don’t know what is. Hell thought it won on Friday. It found out on Sunday. That’s not just theology—that’s the ultimate April Fools.

Here’s the part that gets me every single time. The disciples looked foolish. They had left everything—boats, tax tables, families, careers. Three years of their lives poured into following a man who was now dead.

From the outside, they looked like the most gullible people in Jerusalem. The crowd that had shouted “Hosanna!” on Sunday was nowhere to be found by Friday. Because following a dead Messiah looked foolish.

And then Sunday happened. And the ones who looked foolish? They turned out to be the ones who were right all along.

“For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.”
1 Corinthians 1:25

Let’s talk about faith for a minute. Faith looks foolish from the outside. Believing in something you can’t see? Foolish. Planting seeds for years with no sign of growth? Foolish. Staying faithful when you haven’t seen the harvest yet? Foolish.

But the resurrection proves one thing: what looks foolish to the world is often exactly what God is doing. The empty tomb didn’t look like a victory. It looked like a crime scene. Until it looked like everything.

Death thought it had the last word. It didn’t. The enemy thought the cross was the end. It was the beginning. The world thought the disciples were fools. They turned the world upside down.

And every single time in your life—when something looks finished, when the stone looks immovable, when the silence feels permanent—God is setting up the Sunday. The plot twist is already written. The prank is already in motion.

The tomb is still empty. And that joke never gets old.

Father,

Thank You for being the God of plot twists. Thank You that what looks foolish to the world is often exactly where You’re working. Thank You that the cross looked like defeat but became the greatest victory in history.

Help me today to be okay looking foolish. To keep planting when the harvest isn’t visible. To keep believing when the room is quiet. To keep showing up—because I know how the story ends.

The tomb is empty. That’s not a joke. That’s the whole thing.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

April Fools Day. Holy Wednesday. Same day. Coincidence? Maybe.

But here’s what’s not a coincidence: the God who engineered the resurrection is the same God who is engineering your Sunday. The plot twist is already written. The prank is already in motion.

Death already lost. And the joke is on everything that ever tried to stop you.

“The Lord laughs at the wicked, for He knows their day is coming.”
Psalm 37:13