THE LORD LIVES!

THE LORD LIVES!


We have all EXPERIENCED
Death in our lives


We have LOST parents=a spouse=
A child=a friend=and MANY other
Members of our FAMILY


Today we CELEBRATE
The feast of Saint
Mary Magdalene


Imagine the SORROW of Mary
Weeping outside the empty grave=
BELIEVING not only


Her master and teacher was DEAD-
But that his body
Was stolen=then she SAW HIM!


“Jesus said to her 'Mary!'” John 20:16


She encounters someone
She thinks is a STRANGER=
UNTIL he calls her
By name


Imagine the TENDERNESS
In that word “MARY”=
Imagine how SHOCKED Mary is=
To HEAR her name


Mary recognizes the Lord
Has CONQUERED death
WITH LOVE


THE LORD LIVES!=
Jesus is ALIVE!


“The world cannot accept him-
Because it neither sees him
Nor knows him=


But you know him
For he LIVES WITH YOU
And will be in you” John 14:17


Mary was in Jesus=
For they LOVED each other
As a friend
LOVES A FRIEND


And Jesus is in us
For we LOVE HIM TOO


“I have been crucified
With Christ=
And I no longer live=
But Christ LIVES IN ME


The life I now live
I live in the body
I live by faith
In the SON of God


Who loved me
And gave himself for me” Galatians 2:20


“This is how
We know what love is


Jesus Christ laid down his life
For us=
And we ought
To lay down OUR LIVES
For our brothers and sisters” 1 John 3:16


The Lord Jesus Christ
LIVES in all of us
Who BELIEVE IN HIM


Imagine the JOY
With which Mary
Hurried back to the apostles


Who loved him=and
WERE feeling DOWN and DEPRESSED too


Mary carries this SAME MESSAGE
Back to us today


The LORD LIVES
And life as we know it
Has been TRANSFORMED


“I know
That my REDEEMER LIVES
And that in the end
He will stand
On the earth” Job 19:25


KEEP on believing=
The LORD STILL LIVES TODAY
We will recognize his JOY and presence
Again in this world


In Jesus' name=and in the name of our FOREVER LIVING FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
7-21-20




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Greg Erlandson