“Woman, Why
Are You Weeping?”
But Mary stood weeping outside the
tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels
in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and
the other at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said
to them, “They have taken away my LORD, and I do not know where they have laid
him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there,
but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you
weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to
be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me
where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to
me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and
say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your
God.’” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the
LORD”; and she told them that he had said these things
to her.
People want to know whether we will
all know each other in heaven. Many believe we will know and be known there.
When Jesus received His glorified body, His followers recognized Him. And
someday we too will have a glorified body.
Someday we will hear again the voices
of loved ones whose names are written in heaven – voices now still. We will
hear the father who spoke our name with affection and the mother who called us
in from play.
There is one voice, however, that we
should long to hear, and that will be Jesus Christ calling out our name to come
to Him. And like Mary, we will know Him at once. He is our Savior.
Goodbyes are
the law of earth – reunions are the law of heaven.
Our Daily
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