UNIMAGINABLE
John 20:1-18

Mary of Magdala, known as Mary Magdalene, became a close follower of Jesus after Jesus healed her. Mary, who was healed of evil spirit and infirmities, became the first who encountered Jesus after His resurrection. God is not a God of partiality, it is the level at which anyone seek Him that He would be found. The testimony of Mary Magdalene is evident to the Word of God in John 9:31, “Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.” Mary was the first to get to the tomb of Jesus on the resurrection day, “Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.” (John 20:1) Mary could not stop seeking Jesus, even after He had been crucified on the cross of Calvary. In her discovery that the tomb was empty, she was the first to go and tell Peter, and other disciples about the empty tomb. By virtue of Mary Magdalene’s report, “Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. 4 So they both ran together, and the other disciples outran Peter and came to the tomb.”(John 20:3-4) At the empty tomb, Jesus’ closest friends, and other disciples that had been through it all with Jesus, did not stay long enough before they went back to their own homes. “But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb.” (John 20:11) Mary went an extra mile in her attempt to see the body of her Savior. When she refused to leave and go back to her home like the disciples did. Mary had ran, watched, waited, and while she was weeping, angels that attended to her could not satisfy her desire to see her Lord and Savior. “Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.” (John 20:14) Mary’s persistency to see the Lord yielded, and she became a testimony to the world as the first to announce the resurrection of Jesus while the disciples were in too much of a hurry to go back to their own homes. Who would have said that, among all that encountered Jesus, Mary Magdalene, who was formerly possessed, would become the news breaker of the greatest news? In any situation, waiting and watching for the Lord will never be a waste.

Prayer for the day: The grace to keep on waiting and watching for your visitation in every area of my emptiness, Lord, let it have its way in my life.