Fear Not

April 22nd,, Mark 16: Go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.' “Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. Christ knows that even with the fear not, we still have fear. It is interesting to note that Christ was going on ahead of them to Galilee. As we timidly step out as a Christian in this world, remember Christ has gone on before you to prepare the way. Just as Christ used the unlikely ones as the prime bearers of the good news; the woman at the well in Samaria as the first evangelists, the woman with the alabaster flask as the first one to show true Christian devotion, the Centurion on Golgotha who proclaimed truly this one was the Son of God (and thereby saying that Caesar was not the Son of god as the emperor cult claimed) here, the women at the tomb are the first post-resurrection evangelists. Their task is not without fear in a world that will most likely reject them. Christ has gone on ahead to break the new ground. Thank God today that the way has been prepared and ask for the strength to go forward as an evangelist for Christ in your world.