LIFE SCRIPTS

So they left the tomb in a hurry, afraid and yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Peace be with you.” They came up to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to them. “Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”
Matthew 28:8‭-‬10 GNBDC

The angel instructed the women on what to do. No sooner had they left the tomb than they met the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. His command resonated with the instructions from the angel…tell my brother’s to go to Galilee. I’ll meet them there!!! The women had not only been ministered to by an angel but by the Lord Himself. The Lord chose to appear to them to instruct the others. In fact, the others they were to instruct seemed closer to Christ than the women who were sent. Which leads me to the question, how did the disciples take these instructions…did they despise them not only because they were from women but because Christ, being closer to them should have appeared to them instead? I’m imagining the look on the faces of Peter, James and John, the beloved disciples. How beloved were they in the eyes of Christ? Shouldn’t He have appeared to them first? God is a sovereign God. He decides to minister to who ever He chooses…He decides to act on behalf of whoever He chooses…He decides to have mercy in whoever He chooses. God can lift any insignificant person, issue or circumstance to prominence by acting in His sovereignty. These women, however insignificant they were, were going to instruct the disciples (who had been closer to Christ) about where to meet Him and at what time. God can use seemingly mundane, plain and I dare say, insignificant people around us to speak to us His word. The choice is ours….to obey Him or not. However the choice of the vessel is His…whether we see it as insignificant or not.