IMITATE THEIR FAITH/MARY MAGDALENE - "I Have Seen the Lord!"

 Jesus knew her thoughts "Stop clinging to me," he said. We may imagine his saying the words kindly, perhaps with a warm smile, as he gently disengaged himself from her grip and reassured her, saying: "I have not yet, ascended to the Father." It was not quite time for him to depart for heaven. He still had work to do on earth, and he wanted Mary to help. Mary, of course was all ears. "Go to my brothers," he told her, "and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to My God and your God."' - JOHN 20:17. 

What an assignment from her Master! Mary as one of the first disciples privileged to see the resurrected Jesus, and now she was entrusted with the privilege of passing along the good news. Imagine the joy, the eagerness, that impelled her to find the disciples. Picture her breathlessly uttering the words that must have echoed in her mind and their long afterward: "I have seen the Lord!" She told them everything Jesus had said, her words rushing out in sheer excitement. (John 20:18) Her account added to what the disciples had heard from the other women who went to Jesus' tomb. - LUKE 24:1-3, 10. 

Next time: IMITATE THEIR FAITH/MARY MAGDALENE - "They Would Not Believe the Women" 

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