Encouragement For Today 4 April 2022 Monday

Encouragement For Today 4 April 2022 Monday

Encouragement for Today April 4th, 2022 – To the One Who Longs To Feel Known. God bless you as you study!

ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY 4 APRIL 2022

TODAY’S TOPIC: TO THE ONE WHO LONGS TO FEEL KNOWN BY BRENDA BRADFORD OTTINGER

SCRIPTURE: “‘Mary!’ Jesus said. She turned to him and cried out, ‘Rabboni!’ (which is Hebrew for ‘Teacher’).” John 20:16 (NLT)

Encouragement For Today 4 April 2022 Monday

Songs of soft praise laced with the warm scent of coffee hovered in the air as cheerful ladies trickled through the doors and walked toward the sound of their names, beckoned by familiar voices.

I was new in town and had barely talked myself into attending the Ladies’ Night at church, where no one knew my name.

As I scanned the clusters of women laughing and nodding with familiarity, I quietly hoped someone would invite me into their circle of conversation.

More than anything that night, I longed to feel known.

That evening is now a bygone memory, but even today, after two years of social distancing, I find myself longing to know and feel known in more intimate ways again.

Whether we’re new to a group, a job or a season of life, whether we’re the introverts who struggle to reach out or the ones who’ve been through so much that we’re unsure who to trust and let in, a common cry of the human heart is to feel known.

Recently, a verse I’d once overlooked in the Bible captured my heart. Three days after Jesus’ crucifixion, Mary Magdalene, a friend and follower of Jesus, returned to His tomb to anoint His body with burial spices, but to her troubled surprise, she found an empty grave.

As Mary turned to walk away, she saw Jesus standing there. Not recognizing Him in His resurrected state, Mary mistook the risen Savior for a gardener, saying, “Sir … if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him” (John 20:15d, NLT).

But then: “‘Mary!’ Jesus said. She turned to him and cried out, ‘Rabboni!’ (which is Hebrew for ‘Teacher’)” (John 20:16).

The One whom Mary had sought among the dead now breathed her name into the sunrise of a glorious new day!

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