Understanding God 's Plan For Us As His Disciples

“Yet the Lord still shewed mercy to me, and helped me; and as he wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other” Mary Rowlandson. She believed in God’s mercy and that everything happens for a reason not by mistake.

As Mary’s story unravels, she continues to suffer long hours of work, starvation, and separation from her family. She reads her holy bible and is constantly reminding herself that God is with her and will see her through these trials. Her spirits are lifted her master agrees to sell Mary to her husband, and her mistress begins the journey with her, but before long the mistress decides not to go any further and they turn back. Not long after, she starts to loose hope that she will ever be reunited with her family. She becomes discouraged, and her spirit

Mary was a 1st- century Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth according to the New Testament. In the gospels of Matthew and Luke, they describe Mary as a great and faithful servant of God. Mary’s greatest accomplishment was to happen to her was, she became

It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby!” (Gilman 3).

Her son showed up shortly after and they were able to be together again and comfort each other (76). On page 78 God gives Mary comfort through a passage she finds in the book of Jeremiah in the bible. Later, she described herself as blessed because she was the only Christian captive left in the tribe (80). She continued to rejoice at every opportunity she was given and on page 84, while going to visit her son, she gets lost in the woods. Even though she could not find him, she still praised God for keeping her

The Indians had many settlers trapped inside a burning house. Mary Rowlandson was one of the settlers. As the fire increased she realized she had to make a choice, either stay inside and burn to death, or go outside and face what the Indians had in store for them. She took her children and her nephew, and started to leave the house. Right as she was about to leave the Indians shot a bunch of bullets into the wall, and it scared her so she took a step back and waited. Mary Rowlandson noticed that in middle of this chaos that her six stout Dogs were just sitting there quietly. God used this as an example that she can only rely on him in

When discussing the Bible’s New Testament, there are several individuals aside from Jesus that gander a lot of attention. It is not uncommon to hear pastors and priest preaching about the disciples that walked with the messiah during his time of great works during a Sunday service. There are many lessons to be learned from the experiences of and trails faced by the men that knew best. However, even though the Bible is considerable a masculine text, there are many notable women sprinkled throughout it. Most notable, of course, would be the mother of Jesus, Mary. She made several appearances throughout the Gospel from the moment the angel came to her and said “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28) to let her know that she was going to be the mother of the “Son of the Most High” (Luke 1:32) to the moment she stood witness to the crucifixion of that Son. Today, after Jesus, Mary – sometimes also called The Virgin Mary – is among those most revered in the Bible. However, she is not the only Mary to have close ties to the Biblical savior. There are actually at least three other Marys to walk along side with Jesus at some point, but none more conversational than Mary Magdalene.

The son will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest and God will give him the throne of David. He will also reign over Jacob’s house forever. Mary, just like Zachariah doubts the angel’s words since she didn’t know a man. The angel tells her that she will conceive of the Holy Spirit and Jesus will be called the Son of God. He tells her that her relative is also pregnant for with God nothing is impossible. Mary says that she is a servant of God and he could do whatever he wished with her.

As Hope and her family fought cancer, their faith in God kept them grounded. Stuart and Shelby, Hope’s parents, would often ask God for signs that he was watching over her. Some of God’s signs were miraculous to say the least. When Stuart was in the mountains, he saw a huge billboard that read, “Hope Thou in God.” Additionally, when Shelby went to pray in the chapel at the hospital a stained glass window titled “The Hope Window” featured a picture of a young girl on crutches with God’s hands placed on her shoulder as he was healing her. God was certainly watching out for the Stout family.

It is through Mary it becomes clear the importance of not giving in to one’s weaknesses.

Through her 11 weeks of captivity, she only shed tears once. Her faith in God is what kept her going through this situation. She learns early on in her captivity that she would have to rely on God to survive. In the second remove, she states, “But the Lord renewed my strength still, and carried me along.” Mary knew God would be the one being to give her strength to push through. Even as she watched her child die and was forced to live in brutal conditions, she still put her entire faith in God. One verse that enabled her to keep going was Psalm 37:5, “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” Her strength and faith to push through make her an extraordinary

Her daughter Sarah was six years old and suffered horribly for nine days until she died. She describes to us how awful it was and how she had nothing to comfort her except for a little cold water, but when she dies she once again gives God the glory that he kept her mentally strong. “For preserving me in the use of my reason and senses in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life” (Rowlandson 132). Shortly after her daughter dies, she goes to see her ten-year-old daughter Mary. However, because Mary weeps

In the Gospel of Mary, circa 120-180 AD, Mary Magdalene displays that women exercised agency by being a vessel of God and finding favor with the Lord. Beginning in the first paragraph of the work, it states, “Andrew and Peter question her veracity and ask why a woman should become a favorite disciple” (The Gospel of Mary 53). This demonstrates that men did not understand why a woman would be seen as a greater or more trustworthy being themselves as Christ’s inoculator. However, Mary remains humble, and she uses her agency to teach the men. Mary shows her willingness to enlighten the men when it is stated, “Mary answered, ‘What’s concealed from you I’ll tell; I saw him in a vision and I told him’” (The Gospel of Mary 57). This demonstrates Mary’s power over the males. In this situation, she holds knowledge that only she can give to them. This allows for her to become the individual in

The Gospel of Luke did an amazing job at resembling who Mary is, and why she is so important to our Christian religion, as well as telling her

Wednesday July 22nd. Mary Magdalene is one of my favorite people in the bible. She is loyal, strong and persistent. She was such an eager disciple and did not let her weaknesses stop her from serving and learning from the Lord. So in this Gospel reading I see her vulnerable, weak and anxious. A moment of devastating pain as she discovers the body of Jesus was missing from the tomb. As I read the passage I highlighted a few phrases and the one that spoke loudly to me was when “Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.” As I picture Mary crying and mourning with confusion and anxiety I can’t help to think how in the midst of sorrow and pain, I too have been so blinded by emotion that I did not