Restored

Photo of Mary Magdalene, by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, Year: ca. 1858–1860.

What is your response to being provided for, healed, or restored by Jesus?

Our provision, healing, and restoration should provoke a loving response from us of worship towards Jesus. This was the case with Mary Magdalene whom Jesus had delivered from seven demons. When Mary was restored, she followed Jesus along with other women who provided for Jesus and his disciples as they followed him.

Luke’s gospel account tells us, “Jesus went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.” (Luke 8:1-3, ESV).

Like these women who were impacted by Jesus and forever changed, we are to give ourselves over to following Jesus and to the work of God out of our own gratitude for our provision, healing, and restoration.

Like Mary Magdalene, may we follow Jesus and devote our lives and resources to him as worship and gratitude as his disciples.

The Collect of the Day: Mary Magdalene:“Almighty God, whose blessed Son restored Mary Magdalene to health of body and of mind, and called her to be a witness of his resurrection: Mercifully grant that, by your grace, we may be healed from all our infirmities and know you in the power of his unending life; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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Photo of Mary Magdalene, by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, Year: ca. 1858–1860.