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Thursday, December 27, 2007
Nonsense?
The women left the tomb (grave) and went to the eleven
apostles and the other followers. The women told them
everything that happened at the tomb. These women were Mary
Magdalene, Joanna, Mary, the mother of James, and some other
women. These women told the apostles everything that
happened. But the apostles did not believe what the women
said. It sounded like crazy talk. But Peter got up and ran to
the tomb to see. He looked in, but he saw only the cloth that
Jesus' body had been wrapped in. The cloth was lying there
alone. {Jesus was gone.} Peter went away to be alone,
wondering what had happened.
-- Luke 24:9-12 (ERV)
KEY THOUGHT:
These women have been more faithful than any of Jesus' male disciples
in standing by the Lord in his journey to the Cross and to his tomb.
When these faithful women go and tell the disciples what has happened,
their testimony is dismissed as mere nonsense. It sounded like nonsense
to most of the male disciples. Yet all of us, male and female, must
realize that the earliest witnesses of the resurrected Jesus were the
women who stood by him through his ministry and through his death all
the way to his resurrection. These trailblazing heroes of our faith in
the resurrected Savior include "Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother
of James, and several others." I don't know about you, but there are a
number of women who have pioneered the way for my faith to find the
resurrected Jesus, as well.
TODAY'S PRAYER:
Father, thank you so much for the influence of faithful women who have
blazed the trail that has led me to believe in your risen Son. Bless
them in ways that help them know the eternal difference they have made
in my life. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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