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

1-5-2022