To fully find life again, Mary Magdalene had to let go! (John 20: 11 – 18)
The preacher Bill Coffin said that the hope of the resurrection is “to convert us from something less than life to the possibility of full life itself.”
This is what happened to Mary. Her experience of the joy of resurrection life begins when Jesus said her name, “Mary” and then said, “It’s time to let go.” In letting go, we can be converted to the possibilities of full life again.
In letting go in a resurrection world, we can again experience life after pain and sadness and we can expel bitterness. We can find the possibility of full life itself.
These words describe Mary Magdalene.
She cries at the tomb, because she is so sure that Jesus is dead.
She cries for him and she cries for herself and her loss. Yet when Jesus said her name, he is not dead any more, and neither is she!
We need a Saviour to dry the whole world’s tears. And we have a Saviour, the almighty Christ, who dries our tears - one person and one name at a time! Jesus calls us by the name to let go and to start living again. Believe it, because Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed.
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