Nancy Lee DeMoss explains that the Mary who gave birth to Jesus also saw him die.

You see, Mary needed a Savior, just as every one of us needs a Savior.

And the wonderful news of Mary's Son, the gospel of Jesus Christ, is that in Christ, the one who gave up his life and then was raised from the dead and ascended into heaven, in Christ we have a Savior.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, December 26, 2014. Last night I had dinner with a woman who recently lost her father after a long battle with cancer.

And she shared how in the final hours of her dad's life, that the whole family came together,

gathered around that bedside, and shared some precious, tender moments expressing love and devotion

and commitment to each other.

You know, it's never easy to watch a loved one die.

I've been there, and many of you have been there. But those occasions do reveal a lot.

They tell a lot about the one who is dying,

and they also tell a lot about those who are being left behind.

In the Gospel of John, chapter 19, we find Mary of Nazareth, Mary the mother of Jesus,

in the final scene of Jesus' earthly life as he goes to the cross. And this passage gives us

some, I think, very intimate glimpses into the life of Mary's relationship with her son, Jesus,

and glimpses that tell us something about the kind of woman that God uses to fulfill his

purposes here on earth. John chapter 19, I'm beginning reading in verse 25, near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister,

Mary the wife of Clopis, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there and the disciple whom he

loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, dear woman, here is your son. And to the disciple, here is your mother. From that time on,

this disciple took Mary into his home. I want us to look today at two characteristics out of

the life of Mary that we see just beautifully painted for us in this portrait at the cross. First, I see that Mary was a devoted

woman, a devoted woman, a devoted follower of Jesus Christ. There are other passages in the

Gospels that fill in the details surrounding this incident at the cross, and they tell us that

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