IMITATE THEIR FAITH/MARY MAGDALENE - "IHAVE 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 acended yet to the Father."  It was not quite time for him to depart for heaven.  She still had workd 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 waa one of the first disciples privileged to see the resurrected Jesus, and now she was entrusted with the privileg 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 theirs long afterward: "I have seen the Lord!"  She told them everything Jesus had said, her words rushin gout in sheer excitement.  (John 20:18)  Her account added to what the disciples had heard from the other women who went to Jesus' empty tomb. - LUKE 24:1-3, 10.

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

From the jw.org publications