Believing Takes Time

 Mark 16: 9-16

Mary Magdalene Sees the Risen Lord

⁹ Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons. ¹⁰ She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept. ¹¹ And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

Jesus Appears to Two Disciples

¹² After that, He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country. ¹³ And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.

The Great Commission

¹⁴ Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. ¹⁵ And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

So new, so different, a person rising from the dead, even as he had promised, took time to sink in. Jesus took his time to allow for the slowness of the human heart to believe.The belief finally took root and Jesus was then confident in entrusting his "rescue mission" to his apostles and ultimately to us. As Jesus was patient with his followers we must be patient with ourselves and with those to whom we are trying to pass on the Good News.  Patient, respectful,understanding,  persistent and trusting  Our daily prayer will give us these tools, these virtues, that will bear fruit. It worked then, it will work now.

Bro Rene