"…they mourned and wept…and believed not"

[JoanneF]

Mary Magdalene “went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.” (Mark 16:10-11)

The apostles were so overcome with the belief of death and mourning, even self-pity, that it had hardened their hearts and made it impossible for them to see the risen Christ. Science and Health states: “Mortal mind must part with error, must put off itself” before “the Christ ideal, will appear.” (430:3-5) It wasn’t until Jesus “upbraided them,” that the apostles’ eyes and their hearts were finally opened. Once they got rid of the mourning and self-pity, — the whole belief in sickness and death, which “tends to shut out the true sense of Life and health,” — that they were then able to obey Jesus’ command, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”

This made me think of how many times a pity-party, mourning for myself, self-justification and excuses, or any indulgence in self, kept me from doing what I really needed to do, — that is, go out and demonstrate the Christian Science that I’d been taught. What a great lesson to be learning here in this church!

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