None of Your Business

Reflection for April 2, 2016

Mary Magdalene is the first one that Jesus appears to in all four gospels and in Marks’ account he mentions that Jesus cast out seven demons from her.

Jesus could have appeared to anyone first, but He chose to appear to the one whom he cast out seven demons. 

Mary tells the others and no one believed her.  The eleven don’t believe until He appears to them at dinner and Jesus rebukes them for being hard of heart.

We work in prison ministry and we have met several men that have told us they weren’t guilty of the crime they were in jail for.  Can you imagine that? 

There are reasons that Jesus appears to Mary first, and one reason may be that she is the one that has the least amount of credibility because He knows the others can’t shed their prejudices in regard to Mary’s past. 

Maybe another is that she believes in His Love so deeply and genuinely that He comes to see her first.  Maybe she doubted the most of all the followers and He knew she needed that reassurance.

Whatever the reasons may be, Jesus transformed Mary’s life so drastically that she has an encounter with the Risen Christ and tells others.

It’s none of Mary’s business whether or not the people she told believed her and it isn’t our business whether or not people believe us.  Our responsibility is to spread the Love of God and the message of Christ in our actions.

It is also none of our business what God does with our life, our business is to do it!