you are special by max lucado reflection

No New Testament story describes her work. Why? Why her? As far as we know, she didn’t become a missionary. And what was his first act? To whom did he go? To Mary the weeping, heartbroken woman who once had seven demons. Ten thousand angels stood in rapt attention ready to serve. Jesus was the undisputed King of the universe. He’d just yanked the fangs out of Satan’s mouth. He’d just ripped the gates off of the hinges of hell. To her! Of all the people to whom he could have spoken, he went first to her. “Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things to her” (John 20: 18 NKJV). And, by all means, paint a broad smile on the face of Jesus. If you are the one to paint this scene, be sure to include the reflection of the sunrise in the tears of Mary. Capture it in oil and frame it on canvas. How wonderful that he did! That the resurrected Lord was not too holy, too otherly, too divine, and supernatural to be hugged. We just know, for a moment, she did.Īnd Jesus let her do so. Maybe she threw her arms around his shoulders and held him close. Maybe she fell at his feet and held his ankles. We know this to be true because of the next words Jesus said: “Don’t hold on to me, because I have not yet gone up to the Father” (John 20: 17 NCV).

In the amount of time it took to rotate her head from this way to that, her world went from dead Jesus to a living one. “She turned and said to Him, ‘Rabboni!’ (which is to say, Teacher)” (John 20: 16 NKJV). When she heard the voice she knew the source. She told them that she would retrieve the body if they would disclose the location. She found the tomb to be empty except for some angels she mistook for grave robbers. She’d come to the tomb early that morning. Maybe it was the memory associated with it, the moment she first heard someone say her name without demons screaming it in her mind.

You are special by max lucado reflection