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Woman, why weepest now?

On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.Dearly beloved in Christ Jesus, will you envision that you had gone to the tomb along with Mary Magdalene? In your life, you have lost all the hope of living with your estranged spouse or you have lost the hope of restoration of things that were stolen by the Devil or you have lost the hope of divine healing.The Holy Spirit exhorts you today to see the empty tomb and the resurrected Christ through the eyes of Mary Magdalene. Like Mary Magdalene, you should be the first person to see the resurrected Christ in your life today. Your hope has now risen from the dead. The impossibility has now become a possibility. Remember that when Christ rose from the dead, you also rose along with Him.In your life, there must be an empty tomb. Because of your lack of faith in Him, you had buried Christ in a tomb. But Christ cannot be buried for long. Even if you are faithless, He remains faithfully and cannot deny Himself (2 Tim.2:13). This is the secret of His love for you.

If you see the empty tomb today, you will definitely see the resurrected Christ by your side. Today you do not see the crucified Christ but a resurrected Christ. Your hope has now risen from the dead. You will now find that the stone of unbelief placed by you on your life had already been removed.

The Holy Spirit exhorts you to be like Mary Magdalene who was the first person to see the risen Christ. Though she was possessed by seven demons, which the Lord had cast, she had the great privilege of seeing the risen Christ at first. On this first day of the week, why cannot you be the first person to see the risen Christ? Mary Magdalene rose early in the morning when it was still dark to go the tomb of Jesus. Oh, this is the right time for you to commune with the risen Christ. You should henceforth give first priority to Jesus in your life. Your first thought in the early morning should be on Him only. Let the other disciples like Peter and John follow you.

Mary Magdalene was the first person to break the news of the empty tomb to Peter and John. She did not walk but ran to tell them that the Lord was taken out of the tomb by the Roman soldiers and that they did not know where they had laid Him.

When the late comers like Peter and John saw only the empty tomb, and went away to their houses, Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping. She could have also gone home after seeing the empty tomb. But she was relentless in her pursuit of the risen Lord. Though she had seen the empty tomb, yet she did not rejoice but wept. Though she was not a woman of faith, yet she loved the Lord because she did not go home but was weeping. Her love for the Lord outweighed her faith. The risen Christ looks into your heart for your love more than your faith.

As you stand near the empty tomb weeping, you receive a message of the angels, “Woman, why weepest thou?” Today, this angelic message comes to you. As you turn around, you can hear His voice, “Woman, why weepest thou?” A new hope dawns on your spirit now as you read this message.

We are more blessed than Mary Magdalene because the Lord has given us His Holy Spirit Who indwells us. We not only see the resurrected Christ through our spiritual eyes but also live in Him. Jesus told Thomas who had earlier believed, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29). Today we believe in Him, though we have not seen Him through our physical eyes. Though Mary and the other disciples saw the resurrected Jesus through their physical eyes, you and I see Him through our spiritual eyes or our eyes of faith. We are indeed blessed.

- Job Anbalagan