Why Are You Weeping?

 

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?  Whom are you seeking ?"  She supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, "Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away." 16 Jesus said to her,  "Mary!" She turned and said to Him, "Rabboni! ( which is to say Teacher). 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, 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.  John 20:15-18  New King James Version

Jesus had been crucified on a cross. Here she views a man as the gardener! How would He been dressed? What gave her that idea to ask "the supposed gardener " where Jesus had been moved? She is in a cemetery. This is somewhat desert area used only for tombs.

A kingdom that is God ruled appeared as the Garden of Eden. Jesus came to show that we live by faith, speaking the same as God and it is seed we sow for life!

In the kingdom of God we come to live by the standards God has set for us to live by! It is not only to be alive but to stay alive for His glory, to be preserved & flourish. It is to enjoy life again by His standard of living, to recover in health and to breathe out for His glory & His praise.

It is not rights that rule, but a righteous God who leads by His voice of truth for purpose.  He asked Adam where they were at. And he responded by speaking they were naked. They took off the goodness of God and put on the world!

To flourish in God, preserved for Him and His plan is by residing in the secret place.  WE abide in His presence to hear His voice speak, to receive dreams and to listen to Him. Within that posture we meet with Him daily. We come to listen & record what He speaks to us! It is one characterized by faithfulness to God that appears as consistent in a belief with a steadfast heart to God that is true & every man is found a liar!

Life in God's Garden: Genesis 2:8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God  made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

God made pleasant things to the sight and good for food. But in this reality of God, man would choose that of human choice for own delights! They heard the sound of God walking in the garden. And they were afraid. They had listened to the voice of the world and not to God Who created it. ( the earth)

Jesus was bullied because people said He was a mistake his mother Mary made. But Jesus is the Son of GOD. No mistake here! Joseph, the natural father on earth died early in his years. Jesus was hated by Pharisees and Sadducees and others. He sought to give people the truth of the Father. He sought to let others know what God would do when they hear Him. At one point some of His own friends would try to throw Him off the brow of a hill!

In the tomb area, Mary M. saw a man and presumed the "gardener". True the gardener came to set us on the path of planting God's word. Was Mary consumed in death and dying? WAS she tuned into the doom and gloom of a loss? People in prison are tuned into prison life. They get out and find other people who served time. They can end up back in the place of destruction.

So when Mary M. found it was Jesus and would meet them soon, she moved to tell the others and where was their thinking set? Let us keep in tune with a Jesus who is alive! He settle it all....finished what He came to do. He spoke to the demonic activity in the grottos. He delivered the love of the Father.

Maturing in Christ is Vital. It is vital to know Him, speak with Him, honor and delight to see the future with Him. Like John the apostle, our walk started by the conversion. We became those disciples that Jesus loves!. They are the humble, the submitted, who relinquished lives to appear in the fullness of Jesus Christ. The walk continues growing ever closer to Him, to know His ways in truth and life!

Here is a future listed as the "garden"! Ezekiel 34:29 I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore. This a return back to what God began.

A planting place is found. It is in God. It is by faith seeing the unseen. If we faint, He will revive. If we cannot walk He causes us to walk again. If we cannot see Him He causes us to see Him. If we cannot hear ....the sound will be heard.....the wind of Him walking in the garden we plant with His word. It never fails!

We heard that gentle voice, we felt the warmth of His embrace and today we are not to shake and quake at what is going on in this world. We are to remember we are in Him, where the Holy Spirit appeared to guide us in wisdom, understanding, counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord. On the other side of the Cross, we see Him as He really is!  We are the creation, and we are to praise the Creator for His goodness to US! That praise should be audible and it should be constant…to see the Goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

When He speaks, may we be aware that His voice that carries the sounds of many waters. Isaiah 43: 1 b “Fear not, for I have redeemed you. “I have called you by your name.; You are Mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you, when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. 3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

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A Woman is to be Valued

A woman is to be valued. She is not the "plaything", an object or the lesser of a man, for God took of Adam a rib and formed Eve.
Yes, woman came from the vision of God and took a rib from man.
Read below:
Genesis 2:19-25
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said,

"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman,'
for she was taken out of man."

24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.   NIV


Adam saw her, the bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh and he called her woman. Adam was to leave the leadership of his father and create a home for his wife. He was to cleave to her. He was to bring security to the woman. As they were to walk together, him leading, they would work together and build the home.
There was no shame (verse 25). With woman arriving on the scene,  the two would glorify God, but satan came to devalue the woman. He came in with intent to stop the glorification to God that man and wife would bring to the Father who created them.
She was to stand beside him, not behind him!

Genesis 3:1
3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"  NIV

The adversary just asked a question, "did God really say.............'you must not eat from any tree in the garden?"

And what did God really say?

Genesis 2:15-17
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."   NIV

And Eve, the woman spoke:

Genesis 3:2-3

2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'"   NIV

Proverbs 31:10-12 Amplified Bible

10 a capable, intelligent and virtuous woman---who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls.  11 The heart of her husband trusts in her confidently and relies on and believes in her securely, so that he no lack of [honest] gain or need of [dishonest] spoil. 12 She comforts, encourages and does him only good as long as there is life within her.

Proverbs 31:17 Amplified Bible

17 She girds herself with strength [spiritual, mental, physical fitness for her God-given task] and makes her arms strong and firm.

Proverbs 31:25-31 Amplified Bible

25 Strength and dignity are her clothing and her position is strong and secure; she rejoices over the future [the latter day or time to come, knowing that she and her family are in readiness for it!] 26 She opens her mouth in skillful and godly Wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness [giving counsel and instruction]. 27 She looks well to how things go in her household, and the bread of idleness (gossip, discontent, and self-pity), she will not eat. 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed (happy, fortunate and to be envied); and her husband boasts of and praises her [saying], 29 Many daughters have done virtuously, nobly, and well [with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness], but you excel them all. 30 Charm and grace are deceptive, and beauty is vain [because it is not lasting], but a woman who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord, she shall be praised! 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates [of the city]!

God has more for women. He desires to enrich their lives with the beauty of Who He is and to see them fulfill what He placed in their hearts when they were first formed in their mother's wombs.

When we have the golden threads of diligence, virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and love.......every woman will be neither barren not unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Read below:

2 Peter 1:5-8.....NKJV......5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

The "virtuous" woman from Proverbs 31 put a foundation of knowing God under her. She walked and followed truth. She walked side by side with her husband as the intelligent, and she has the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness. 

There was a report out of Hollywood today, that there are just as many women as men who study to be directors of films and movies. They (women) study all aspects of the field, and yet there are very, very few women considered to direct any movie. They have the credentials, yet they fall short in the eyes of the men in the same field. They are not considered "the qualified".

That is why I love God and His Word. I love His justice and how He makes our paths level and straight. We can plan our futures, but our best is that which God planned for us. A woman is not merely a homemaker and should not be considered to be the "all" in the field of homemaker.

God created the garden of Eden.........brought forth the animals and had Adam name them all! In that moment as well, He brought forth Adam a helpmate. No where do I read that she was to clean toilets everyday and cook that bacon up in a pan. It is a 50-50 thing. Each has what they bring to the table. But if the husband has brought what his family raised him to add nothing but some guy thing, and told him in regards to family and cooking, and work...within that home is just women's work is badly mistaken. One can see why so many families fall apart. Marriage is work and it takes both parties to want to maintain a family and look to the reward of seeing Grand-children and Great-grandchildren grow and become what God planned for them as well. It is a "team work effort" and every one fills a role!

Spend some months reading Proverbs 31. Look into that which God showed as an example of that woman who seeks and loves God. Spend time filling your heart what you really look like!

God did not plan for a woman to be the pin-up of the month. He planned her to walk along side and be just as productive as the man. In the woman, is a beautiful and delightful deposit of God Himself. In her heart is what He purposed for her. It takes a real man of God to uncover that beauty that God placed there in the "woman's heart". Taking from his rib, He took that which would or should be closest to his heart. It was to be a fellowship and unity held together as one.

 But satan devised other plans. The thing is, satan directed it to be played out that God would receive no credit and no praise for the man and woman He created. But God!

Woman had fallen through the cracks. And in the coming of Jesus, we read how it took time to talk with them and tell them what was next.

They knew Jesus, the Friend. He restored women back to that of virtue and christian devotion. (Luke 7:37-50)  Women rejoiced when He blessed their children ( Mark 10:13-16) and when He had raised "the dead". (see Luke 7:12-15)

The women in the Bible at the time of Jesus were those who stepped out to see change come. They chose to be clothed in the beauty and simplicity of the character of Jesus Christ. They exchanged their low estate, and a life of paganism......to worship God,  to see their families cared for, their spiritual life nourished in the words of Jesus and be transformed to live lives that still speak today. 

For the agonies, the pain and activity of today is set on degrading women and bringing them lower than dirt is not good and is not of God.

We stand together as women, created by God to speak out in faith, "enough is enough". We speak out that our daughters and their daughters will be looked to in high esteem. We believe for the purity of women to be seen, that women will be seen as those with an undaunted heroism to speak out against injustices to women. May we not shrink in fear, but be bold and show that we are the ever loyal to Christ Jesus. It is in HIM, we live and move and have our being. May we rise and take our place. Not with less clothes and spiked heels, but with a virtue that others will see. May we be those who will desire to be a Christian, to receive Jesus as Lord.
May women rise to honor the King. May they be clothed in His beauty, speak with His wisdom and love others that way He does! Shine Jesus in the hearts YOU know of those Who ARE YOURS!

See other blogs pertaining to women: Standing in Line:Order, Order, Order
Love By Subduing, What?

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