Mark tells us the woman came to the tomb this morning and were prepared to find the body and to finish the prep that was not done because of the Sabbath. But they did not find Him…
The tomb was empty except for the man in dazzling white to proclaim that Jesus was not here. As if they should be surprised. Didn’t Jesus tell them that He wouldn’t be there? Did He not make it clear that He was going to die and then He would rise from the grave? He told those following Him over and over again, but they missed it. The women get to the tomb, hear the wonderful news that everything He told us the last 3 years is true, but they do not run away and tell anyone. Instead they run away in fear…
How many of us have ever heard the best news of our life and we are seized with fear that we can not share it? I honestly can not remember getting the best news of my life and running away in fear and not tell anyone. I am ready to shout it from the roof tops, and make sure everybody knows, not just those I care about but everyone! But these women hear that Jesus is not dead, He is alive and has gone ahead of them to Jerusalem, and they go away like they don’t believe it.
But how many of us are ready to tell of Jesus, even to those who know we love Him and try to follow Him? Jesus is not something we shout about from the roof tops… He is not the topic of usual conversation for us, and many of us probably shy away from talking about church, worship, Jesus, God… anything that might cause others to not agree with us. We are seized with fear the moment Jesus comes up. We can understand how these women react, and why, because we do it all the time.
But the truth of the matter is, that is not where the story ends. We are continuing this story that began at Mark 1:1 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ… And just as the passage that ends Mark, but not the story tells us, everything that Jesus told us, and every promise God has made to us, is true and He is good to His word!
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