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| Mary weeping for Jesus! |
17 Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to Me for I have not yet ascended to My Father but go to My brethren and say to them. I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God." 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.
Crisis!
Are we still standing, when things do not go exactly like we planned? The persistent ones will continue to look but sometimes not at what the "real" is at the moment.
Mary was still looking into the "tomb". That was the "real" to her at that moment in time.
Now she sees two angels seated at the place where Jesus was laid earlier. She sees them, one at the head and the other at the foot end of the stone cold slab.
And she weeps! Verse 13 gives us some detail: "woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him."
Mary, she turned and said to Him, "Rabboni!"
Life was still present. Jesus continued in life and that which was planned by the Father for good. Sometimes our focus is looking at what did not happen. Ever been in that place????
Yes, I was and for some time. Really do not like that I did but sometimes, we wonder and then meditate on something far too long. But Life appeared and He spoke to her.
Just because something does not appear to happen, we must not look back at the tomb, but look for the Life and speak to Him about what we know did not happen.
Closed doors does not mean it is over! Death could not hold Him down and it will not hold down that what we believe with an expectancy that God is for us and IS still working .........but we must BELIEVE and hold to that which the Lord has given us in our hearts.
Many commentaries write they could not explain why she did not recognize Him. I believe she carried the last image of His battered body, the torn skin and muscle and blood that stained. The most horrendous thing had happened to Jesus to whom she loved and she remembered. The tomb probably reminded her of that day and now she is searching. But Jesus spoke to her as He had at other times. The "teacher" is speaking and she receives His WORDS: :17 Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to Me for I have not yet ascended to My Father but go to My brethren and say to them. I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God." 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.
She had understanding and it appeared in her character. She waited and watched! The other disciples went to their homes. But she watched! She got to the deliver the message to the other disciples that Jesus was alive among them!
The Dake's Study Bible gives this: love feels no load. Love revealed in the place of the tomb when one thinks on the good times together. But there is the other too, when one thinks it is all over, and please throw some more dirt on the "dead" thing. Yet, God says it is not over for the believer in Jesus. Because what you and I hold in our hearts, that is of faith and truth will rise when God gives the "go ahead "for no door is closed to those who seek.
Keep seeking, keep searching and knocking and it will be revealed to you for your best days are ahead in His name and to His glory. Amien.
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