BLESSINGS EVEN IN GRIEF

My Dear Precious Child,
     Three days later Mary Magdalene went to the tomb where the body of Jesus Christ was buried.  To her surprise the huge stone enclosing the entrance had been rolled away so she ran and got Peter and John, the disciple whom Jesus tenderly loved, and she reported that the Jews had removed the body of their Savior from the tomb.  Peter and John ran, along with Mary Magdalene, to the tomb.  John outran them and when He saw the grave clothes ling there he did not enter into the tomb.  Peter also saw the grave clothes used to bury Jesus also laying there.  However, the napkin that had been placed around the head of Jesus was also lying with the clothes but it was rolled up in a place by itself. John went in the tomb and believed, yet neither of the three understood what had happened, being unlearned in the scripture that said that He must rise from the dead. (Psalm 16:10)  In grief, the two men  went back to their lodging places but Mary stayed outside of the tomb sobbing.  She peeked inside of the tomb and there her blessings began again.  There she saw two angels, one at the head of where Jesus was laid and the other one where his feet had laid.  (John 20:1-10)
    One of the angels asked Mary why she was sobbing.  She replied that someone had taken away her Lord and she didn't know where they took Him.  After saying that, she turned around and there stood Jesus but she did not recognize Him.  Mary asked Him, thinking that He was the gardener, asked Him where He had taken the body of Jesus, that if He told her the place that she would take Him away.  Jesus called out her name, "Mary."  Turning around to face Him she called out, "Master." (John 20:13-17)
    Jesus told Mary not to try to hug Him or touch Him because He had not ascended yet to Me.  He told her to go and tell the brethren that He was ascending to Me, His Father and their Father and to His God and their God.  Mary's grief was turning into the greatest blessing of all, her finding Jesus Christ alive again after having seen Him so savagely crucified, dead and His dead body taken into the tomb.  Mary did as she was instructed, telling the disciples what she had seen and heard.  (John 20:18)   
    Later that first day of the week, because the disciples were fearful of what the Jews would do to them, they were behind closed doors and when it was evening Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace to you."  He showed them His hands and His side and when the disciples saw that it truly was the Lord, they were filled with joy and rapture.  Again He told them that His peace was with them but added that just as I had sent Him into the world, so He was also sending them.  Then Jesus breathed on them and said for them to receive the Holy Spirit.  He added one important element to their having been born of My Holy Spirit.  He said that they had the authority to forgive the sins of anyone and that that person's sins were forgiven but if they retained the sins of anyone, that that person's sins were retained.(John 20:19-22) 
     My blessings for the disciples increased magnificently at that moment because they became born of My Holy Spirit.   My Holy Spirit gave to them the authority in heaven and earth that Jesus had said that He had retrieved from the devil while He was in hell, having died for the sins of the whole world.  (Matthew 28:17-20)  It was the same forgiveness for sins for which He had died and went to hell and then rose from the dead.  He passed on to His disciples the gift of being born of the Holy Spirit which gave to them the authority to forgive sins by the power of the Holy Spirit being resident inside of them. (John 20:23)
    Yes, their overwhelming grief at the events which had happened to the flesh of Jesus on the cross had been replaced with rapturous joy at His appearing alive to His disciples and Mary Magdalene days later.  It was beginning of the fulfillment of the prophesy of David.  (Psalm 30:1-12)
    The human minds of the disciples could not conceive of that truth, that the deepest grief known to humans could so quickly be turned into rapturous joy by Me.  Upon seeing Jesus again, His followers were overcome with ecstasy, utter delight and their emotions were exulted to the highest degree as had yet been experienced by humans.  Yet, the event that resulted in their greatest and highest joy had not yet happened to them.  Jesus had not yet instructed the disciples to wait together for My promise in an Upper Room in Jerusalem, the event which caused them to become baptized in My Holy Spirit in which they would become surrounded by My entire kingdom of heaven.  ( Acts 1: 1-8; Acts 2:1-18; Hebrews 12:1 and 22-28)  On that day they became so extremely joyful that people thought they were drunk with human wine.  Instead of being drunk with human wine, on that day they were experiencing joy to the highest degree made possible by Me for humans.  Their previous grief was turned into unspeakable joy.  That's what I do for My children.
    Your Father of Joy Too Unspeakable To Be Spoken in Human Languages