4.9- Before Jesus died He told his disciples to rejoice with Him that He was close to going home as His work was almost finished.

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Before Jesus died He told his disciples to rejoice with Him that He was close to going home as His work was almost finished. If they really loved Him and understood what heaven was like they would rejoice with Him and for Him.

He told one of His disciples not to hold on to Him.

The most beautiful of joys and the most wonderful people on this earth are not ours to enjoy here forever. We do well to "hold things lightly."

Enjoy every good and perfect gift as coming from God. Still, our focus is to worship and enjoy the creator, not the created.

He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake

John 20.

11 But Mary was standing outside the tomb, weeping; so as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb; 12 and she *saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying. 13 And they *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She *said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they put Him.” 14 When she had said this, she turned around and *saw Jesus standing there, and yet she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Thinking that He was the gardener, she *said to Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you put Him, and I will take Him away.” 16 Jesus *said to her, “Mary!” She turned and *said to Him in [a]Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means, Teacher). 17 Jesus *said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’” 18 Mary Magdalene *came and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and that He had said these things to her.