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Mary Magdalene stands weeping outside an empty tomb, so undone that she mistakes the risen Lord for the gardener. Then Jesus says one word, her name, Mary, and the whole world turns over.
Resurrection morning arrives in your reading today. He still knows His own by name, and He still says them. Listen for yours.
David would have died in Absalom's place and could not; the cry at the gate is a father's love with no mechanism. On resurrection morning we meet the Father who found the mechanism: the Son did die in the rebel's place, and now stands in a garden speaking names, Mary first, yours included.
Psalm 119 ends the way honest discipleship often does, I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, and John 20 is the eternal answer: He seeks, He finds, He names, He breathes peace and the Spirit into locked rooms. Whatever door you have bolted, He is not deterred. Answer to your name today, and echo Thomas: my Lord and my God.
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