Moving To Mature Faith

Jesus 2.0: The Resurrection Conversations Moving to Mature Faith 
John 20:15-18 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
 Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”). Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Luke 24:36-43
While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence.

Key Point: Jesus always comes to us in the exact form we need for us to grow into maturity.

“Clinging to the form must give way to union with the essence.” – John of the Cross John 26:29
Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”