Woman, Why are you Weeping?

At any given moment there are a million reasons to cry. Amirite?

Sometimes we cry and sometimes we overreact a little. Especially women. Hormones are the devil's work. 

Not that men can't be emotional or overreact. This isn't a gender issue. I better throw that in for good measure. 

Jesus wept and once he overturned tables in the temple. Point: He also experienced emotion.

I'm off topic and I've just begun. Hang on, I'm coming back around. 

When Jesus was crucified, He was put in a tomb, a cave, if you will. They rolled a gigantic stone in front of the door to seal it. I figure it took several big strong men to seal that bad boy up. There was no chance someone was taking the body of the "King of the Jews." But there was a twist. There's always a twist.

In John 20 we are told about an emotionally distraught woman who loved her King fiercely. 

Mary Magdalene went to Jesus’ tomb and found the stone rolled away. She frantically went to find the disciples and tell them that “they” took Jesus’ body and she doesn’t know where it is. She assumed that someone had gathered enough people to unseal the tomb and take Jesus' body. She had to find Him and she needed everyone who loved Jesus to help her.

They all ran back to where Jesus had been laid and found His burial linens folded in the tomb. With that discovery, everyone left except Mary. She faithfully sat outside and wept. She felt like she had lost Jesus. She was grieving and confused. 

Once again, she looked inside the tomb again where she saw two angels. That would be a shock wouldn’t it? She's in denial so she keeps looking thinking that her mind is decieving her. That He will be there next time she looks up, but instead she sees angels. They asked her why she was crying, to which she replied, “Because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid Him.” 

She can’t find Jesus, y’all. And that is a distressing thought. She lost her Savior, her Lord, her Love. 

There are lost people in this world desperate for Jesus. They are trying to fill that void with anything. It is a black hole of nothingness aching to be filled. That void has one puzzle piece that fits and until they find it, the hole remains. You can try to fill a hole like that with addiction, with people, with anger, lust, hate, false hope, but it is all consuming and it will not be fully satisfied without the one piece that fits it. That piece is Jesus Christ.

There are saved people in this world desperate for Jesus. They’ve lost Him. They’ve lost sight of their Savior because of grief, sadness, depression, sin. This home away from home has cast a shadow too deep to see. Too much focus on the world has distracted them. 

As Mary turns, Jesus is standing there, asking why she is crying. And in her shadow of fear, grief, and confusion she thinks He is the gardner. She begins to beg Him to tell her where they’ve taken Jesus.
He says, “Mary!” And as the shadow lifts. Her Jesus is before her, raised from the dead. 

How often are we desperate for Jesus? We’re searching high and low, and yet He stands before us. We just can’t see Him for all the junk we have going on in our lives. We blame people for "taking" Him. We are angry with Him for leaving. We need a little reflection to see that He's not gone anywhere. We are letting our emotion and love for all the wrong things cast a deep shadow.

Jesus is right in front of us. He never left. We just got confused and a little lost but if we clear our own thoughts, the world's lies, we will see Him. 

Have you lost Jesus in your life? Been there, done that. But I found him. I found him in the little things, in the big things, in His word, and on my knees, I found Him. He’s waiting for you to realize he isn’t the gardner, He’s the Savior that never left you.