Tuesday... God uses us as individuals.

Tuesday... God uses us as individuals. He really does.

Think of your family and the individuals in it and the differences, the different ways they handle situations. That is by design. That's how God created us.

I finished up the Gospel of John this morning and Jesus' resurrection. Jesus had been crucified and put in a tomb. And look at the different reactions of His close followers.

John 20:1 (MSG), "Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone was rolled away." She was an early riser. The Scripture doesn't condemn everyone else for not getting up early and going to the tomb. It doesn't say that she was the only one who cared. That was who she was.

Verse 2, "She ran at once to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, breathlessly panting, 'They took the Master from the tomb. We don't know where they've put him."

Verses 3-4, "Peter and the other disciple left immediately for the tomb." It doesn't say that any of the others came too.. And nowhere are the others condemned because they didn't start running. "They ran, neck and neck. The other disciple got to the tomb first outrunning Peter." He was faster.

And here are two different responses. Verses 5 - 8, "Stooping to look in, he saw the pieces of linen lying there, but he didn't go in. Simon Peter arrived after him, entered the tomb, observed the linen cloths lying there, and the kerchief used to cover his head not lying with the linen cloths but separate, neatly folded by itself. Then the other disciple, the one who had gotten there first, went into the tomb, took one look at the evidence and believed." Verse 10, "The disciples then went back home."

Then verse 11 says, "But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping." Then verse 16, "'Mary!' Jesus said. She turned and cried out, 'Rabboni!' (which is Hebrew for 'Teacher')."

They each one where different and they weren't condemned for their differences. But we seem to want to look at each of their responses and find fault and criticize but nowhere were they condemned for their differences.

Maybe that is what we need to do in all the different ways we each one are responding to the situations that we are going through today. Maybe He just wants us to accept each other and the individual ways we respond as His creations.

God uses us as individuals and He made us that way. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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