Wednesday John 20:11-18
BIBLE PASSAGE
[Please read and meditate on the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]
To finish the week we just started, we will do four devotions I have called “Jesus’ Easter Encounters.” They are the four different people that Jesus met that first Easter day.
Jesus’ Easter Encounters – Mary
Mary Magdalene was weeping, and her tears seemed unstoppable. Have you ever grieved so much that you can’t stop the tears? When we love someone deeply and are separated from that person, either temporarily or permanently, we grieve deeply. Mary loved Jesus deeply because she had received His great love and power (cf. I John 4:9). Jesus had healed her of seven demons (Luke 8:2) – and every act of Jesus was done out of love. He had released her from an emotional, psychological, and possibly physically damaging state that was more terrible than most of us can imagine. As she herself became a disciple, all she knew was His loving Presence. Her first loss was when Jesus died on the cross. The second loss of the mysterious disappearance of his corpse was almost too much for her to bear. Jesus knew this. Why else would he choose her to be the first human to meet as the Resurrected Lord? You can only imagine the love that filled that calling of her name, “Mary!”
Prayer: Resurrected Lord, was Mary that important that she would be the first to meet you after you conquered death? But you always chose the unimportant, the marginalized, the overlooked to show your love. Is it because they, more than others, have opened themselves up to you to truly receive that love into their lives, and now they can’t live without it? It’s that same love with which you call each of us by name – especially those whose grief seems so inconsolable. I want to hear you call my name, Lord. And now it’s all the more special because you are alive and therefore the tears will only be temporary. Amen
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[Please read and meditate on the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]
To finish the week we just started, we will do four devotions I have called “Jesus’ Easter Encounters.” They are the four different people that Jesus met that first Easter day.
Jesus’ Easter Encounters – Mary
Mary Magdalene was weeping, and her tears seemed unstoppable. Have you ever grieved so much that you can’t stop the tears? When we love someone deeply and are separated from that person, either temporarily or permanently, we grieve deeply. Mary loved Jesus deeply because she had received His great love and power (cf. I John 4:9). Jesus had healed her of seven demons (Luke 8:2) – and every act of Jesus was done out of love. He had released her from an emotional, psychological, and possibly physically damaging state that was more terrible than most of us can imagine. As she herself became a disciple, all she knew was His loving Presence. Her first loss was when Jesus died on the cross. The second loss of the mysterious disappearance of his corpse was almost too much for her to bear. Jesus knew this. Why else would he choose her to be the first human to meet as the Resurrected Lord? You can only imagine the love that filled that calling of her name, “Mary!”
Prayer: Resurrected Lord, was Mary that important that she would be the first to meet you after you conquered death? But you always chose the unimportant, the marginalized, the overlooked to show your love. Is it because they, more than others, have opened themselves up to you to truly receive that love into their lives, and now they can’t live without it? It’s that same love with which you call each of us by name – especially those whose grief seems so inconsolable. I want to hear you call my name, Lord. And now it’s all the more special because you are alive and therefore the tears will only be temporary. Amen
Song: CLICK HERE
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