Why Are You Weeping?

Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” John 20:14-15

First the angels wanted to know why Mary was weeping, then Jesus himself asked the same question: Why are you weeping? Not only do the questions point out that the reason for weeping has gone, but how far Mary is in what she thinks she knows from what is going on. The Proverbs tell us to never rely on what we think we know, and yet we too are in this time of weeping. We have many reasons for this, but like Mary we need to get to the 'He is risen' part. We weep with Timothy when Paul writes that he has finished the race, but Jesus is risen. We weep with one another when a beloved passes on, but...He is risen! We weep over the groaning and the dying in this world, but our Lord is Risen! At times it seems that we have so far to go to get to our risen Lord Jesus, but as Mary found, He is not so far from us.

 

Praise the Lord, He Is Risen!

Bucky