Film Friday When journalist Laura joins a luxury cruise she bumps into a woman in the cabin next to hers. However, when she asks the other guests about her no one else has seen her and she is assured there is no one in cabin 10. But Laura is certain she saw her, and the more she presses home the point, the more the others doubt her. Then she sees someone fall overboard, but nobody believes her about that either…
You feel Laura’s frustration as she is doubted by those around her, and it reminds me of a little moment in Mark’s gospel chapter 16 v 11. Mary has met the resurrected Jesus and knows for sure he is alive. But when she runs to tell the others the good news, they don’t believe her! The greatest news in the world and everyone doubts it. This must have been even more frustrating when we are told in Luke 24 v 34 that the disciples then do believe the good news – because Peter has seen Jesus. I imagine Mary must have been drumming her fingers at the back of the room and sighing. Women were not considered to be reliable witnesses in that culture at that time and yet Jesus did not see it like that, he chose to appear to Mary first, and asked her to tell the others the good news. At the start of Luke chapter 8 we are told that a group of women not only followed Jesus, and went on his missions, but they also supported him financially. Jesus spent his three year ministry choosing the unexpected and unlikely people to be his friends and followers. Just like today. I wouldn’t choose me to be a reliable friend and witness! But Jesus does. He calls us to come close to him, to bring our strengths and weaknesses and personalities, and as we blunder and bumble along, to let his light shine through us as the people he has designed and wired up.
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