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2. Standing Firm in Faith

In typical Jesus fashion, he asks the women to go and do something which completely flew in the face of the culture of the day. (Matthew 28:9-10)

Women’s testimonies during this time would be far less valid than men’s and sometimes, would not even stand up in court. Yet it’s the women who Jesus tasked with sharing the news of his rising again.

Has God ever called you to do something which you just know will look strange or not ‘the done thing’?

When I finished university, the expectation was that I would go and get a job with my shiny, new degree.

But God had other plans and I ended up taking a gap year with my church. Had I followed what was ‘normal,’ I'd never have experienced the transformational power of Jesus, which I did during my gap year. That was truly a springboard to who I am today and what I do now. There’s been many moments since, of course.

Step out in faith and break the ‘norm’ if you need to. He’s more than able to take care of you.

As we’ve begun to explore before, the women had gone to Jesus’ tomb so that they might anoint His body. Of course, things didn’t turn out quite as they expected. However, what I notice in the encounter documented in Mark 16:1-3, is that the women weren't anticipating the miraculous. They were thinking about who would move the stone from in front of the tomb for them.

A normal thought for people on their way to anoint an apparently dead body, of course. But normal doesn’t always seem to be the norm with Jesus.

The word makes it clear that he is able to do exceedingly and abundantly more than we can ask, think, or imagine.

Do we apply faith enough to believe this in our day-to-day lives?