John 20:11-18
Jesus chose Mary as first to share the news of his resurrection. Not Mary, the mother of Jesus. The other Mary. The Mary we forgot. Mary Magdalene. Her life is about the power of rescuing, transforming Grace. Jesus showed that despite her broken past, Mary could be a child of God by grace alone. In fact, Jesus called her then commissioned her to be the “apostle to the apostles.” To the degree you grasp your need for grace, to that degree faith explodes in your life in the form of love. On Sunday we’ll see that there’s no difficulty so large, so dark, and so hard that it lay outside the reach of the Lord’s gracious, mighty arm! He is risen indeed!