Matt 28: 11-20 - Just How it Continues to Be

Starting with verse 11, chapter 28 of Matthew's Gospel talks about what happened when the guards found Jesus's body was gone.  The funny thing is that if the Chief Priests really felt completely sure that Jesus's body had been stolen would they have responded as they did?  I think they would have laughed at the guards and told them to away.  I think they doubted what they had done and feared it would be found out that they had killed the son of God.  They were so afraid they paid the soldiers to lie.

The same thing I think happens today.  Those who most fear that there is a God and that they have denied Him are the most outspoken that He isn't real.  Fear makes us do stupid and regrettable things. Those who mearly doubt but keep an open mind and seek are not the ones we need to worry about.  We should pray for those who fear there is Lord and calm their fears by showing them what a loving God He is.

"When they saw Him, they worshipped, but they doubted", this is us.  We can see Him, if we look, but even when we see, we doubt.  Doubt is not our enemy.  Doubt keeps us looking and seeking the Lord.  I think many of us, if we truly knew the Beloved was there in every moment we would grow bored with it, just like we do in our human relationships.  Having doubt doesn't keep the Lord from commissioning us either.  Just because you doubt sometimes doesn't mean that you have not been commissioned by God to proclaim the Gospel.

Why does God do that?  Why send out those who doubt?  I think most of us think that Saints didn't doubt. But if you read their own writings and the fantasy that is often written later, you find they did doubt.  Saints are humble, doubt comes with humility or humility comes with doubt, I think.  Those who are arrogant think they know everything, even God.  They make God in their own image and use that against other people.  Be happy you doubt, and seek the Lord always.