Matthew 28:1

Nobody believed that Jesus was going to rise from the dead. Well, not really. Two people show up on the day that he's supposed to resurrect, but they go there saying that they are just going to look at the tomb. Like they are going to look at a gravestone. Maybe they said they just wanted to make sure that nobody had desecrated it. Whatever the case, their real motive had to be to see if Jesus had risen. I wonder where I would have been that morning. Would I have risked embarassment to go see the tomb, or would I have hunkered down with all the other disciples still paralyzed by disbelief. JM

Matthew 14:1-12

How many stupid decisions have been made in the world to save people from being embarrassed. Your hanging out, having fun, say something stupid, and then somebody calls you on it. Rather than being embarrassed and not saying what you said was dumb, you follow through with it. As if that's what makes you a man. JM