After Jesus died - | Apr 19, 2025 | Mary Magdalene
One of the greatest cruelties—happened to Mary Magdalene. You will soon understand why her story means more now than ever before.
For starters, Jesus rescued her from what so many women faced in those days. Now she is redeemed and planted into a family of indescribable love. Things would never be the same. Her nights of remorse, her days of futility, her emptiness, were now all distant memories.
The next three years were a life she could never have imagined. Crisscrossing Judea. Hanging on Jesus’ every word. Weeping gloriously over every miracle. Everyday, she woke up a more powerful and joyous woman of God than the day before. She thought it would go on forever.
Everyday, she woke up a more powerful and joyous woman of God than the day before. She thought it would go on forever.
People use the phrase “nothing could be worse…” I will use it this way: Nothing could be worse than to be in hell, and then taste heaven, only to return to hell.
On that fateful Friday, it all went horribly, horribly wrong. How could the One Who called the dead back to life and silenced a storm at sea, be arrested? Can the One who gave words of exquisite beauty, love and wisdom, be tortured and killed? No one wanted to save Jesus more than Mary. She felt horror and helplessness.
That night, profound hope with threatened by bitterness and disappointment. Evil said, “it would have been better if you had never met Him!” Sleep came when exhaustion became more powerful than sorrow. She was too wounded and drained to even think about what she should do with her life.
Mary is of special importance to me today, because her testimony is the best one I can think of this Easter. Mary’s miracle is the miracle the American church needs now! READ MORE
