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**Mark 16:8** — *"So the women left the tomb and ran away, trembling and bewildered. And in their fear they did not say a word to anyone."*
The resurrection's first witnesses were silenced by awe, not unbelief.
Consider the texture of that moment — women who had come to anoint a body, who had watched the stone roll, who now held news too vast for words. Their trembling was not faithlessness. It was the weight of glory pressing against human capacity.
Scripture reminds us that God's most sacred movements often arrive wrapped in bewilderment before they arrive in proclamation. The women would speak — and speak they did. But first, they had to absorb what no theology had prepared them for.
There is mercy in that silence. Not every encounter with the living God demands an immediate response. Some moments call us simply to receive, to tremble, to walk slowly back into the ordinary world carrying something extraordinary.
Let your silence sometimes be the beginning of your testimony, not the absence of it.
The resurrection's first witnesses were silenced by awe, not unbelief.
Consider the texture of that moment — women who had come to anoint a body, who had watched the stone roll, who now held news too vast for words. Their trembling was not faithlessness. It was the weight of glory pressing against human capacity.
Scripture reminds us that God's most sacred movements often arrive wrapped in bewilderment before they arrive in proclamation. The women would speak — and speak they did. But first, they had to absorb what no theology had prepared them for.
There is mercy in that silence. Not every encounter with the living God demands an immediate response. Some moments call us simply to receive, to tremble, to walk slowly back into the ordinary world carrying something extraordinary.
Let your silence sometimes be the beginning of your testimony, not the absence of it.