Who are We

Backdrop:

Mary, along with Joanna and Susanna and numerous others were all healed of evil spirits and infirmities. However “wild” Mary appeared while in torment, when Jesus touched her and healed her she became the woman she really was within, compassionate and full of godly courage. Mary, we discover through the scriptures, stood along side her Master, as he preached, and taught the gospel message. She ministered directly to Him day and night. Just her presence brought notoriety. Mary sorrowed with the others when she and the other women experienced the crucifixion. Mary was one of the last to be at the cross and the first to be at the tomb. Mary was the woman who told Peter and John that the Lord was no longer in that tomb. Learning about her life through all the scriptures should be a great blessing to us all as women of God. Through her experiences, we can see what a blessing is returned upon us, when we openly and continually show our own devotion to our magnificent and awesome Lord.

Special Note:

When I read about the sweet Mary Magdalene with her loyalty and straight-forward godly characteristics, I know I want to pattern my life after her. In 2 Peter 1 we read about the characteristics that God finds pleasing when he looks at us through the eyes of the Lord Jesus. What are they?

Let’s Read Verses 5-8 of that chapter…

“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

And to knowledge temperance: and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

I loved the fact that Mary Magdalene lived with a simple but growing faith. She was genuine.

Comparing Mary Magdalene’s Life with Our Own…How do we fit in?

When she found Jesus she began to grow mightily in her FAITH
She became a woman of true VIRTUE, highly valuable to the Lord
Every day that she was with the Lord, she grew in her KNOWLEDGE of Him
Where once before she was hassled from all sides, with the Lord her life became stable... TEMPERED
I'm sure the Lord taught her PATIENCE for I never read once that she complained as she followed him
As a follower of Christ Mary Magdalene developed a character of godliness. She was once of the Lord's most devout devotees.
In the way that she helped the others she showed brotherly (sisterly) kindness, charitability
God's love shined through her life as a follower of Jesus who could well be called a disciple.

What About Us?

Where are we in our FAITH today?
Can we say that we are becoming women of VIRTUE by the way we live our lives each day?
How are we growing in our KNOWLEDGE of the Lord?
God calls for us to be TEMPERATE in all things, Are we?
How do we show that we have PATIENCE?
Would others be able to look at us and say that we indeed, were godly women?
Is the love of God flowing through our lives?

What a blessing Mary Magdalene became to her Lord! She was a walking miracle and she knew it. No one could be so thankful as she for all that the Lord did for he. He set her FREE!