John 11 35 Jesus wept.

 

As Jesus showed up to heal Lazarus and save the day….he was told the news:  

Lazarus was dead.

His sisters were weeping.

Many stood and simply watched.

 

And the power of the moment moved our Savior to weeping.

 

It is a picture of our society today….and as I listened and worshipped at church on Sunday, the Lord began to convict me.

 

Yes, Jesus showed up late, then cried, and then called Lazarus back from the dead.

 

The tears were wiped away and all was made well.

 

This is a great story of how it happened—-but it is also a great story of what we need from Jesus today.

 

We need His love to show up and “awaken” us.

 

You see……there is something MORE POWERFUL THAN A MAN COMING BACK TO LIFE.

 

I can not believe that I just wrote that…but I am convicted to say it again:

 

THERE IS SOMETHING MORE POWERFUL THAN A MAN COMING BACK TO LIFE.

 

God can heal the physical.  And it is utterly overwhelming when He does.

 

But there is nothing greater than when God awakens someone from spiritual death.

 

You see……

 

There is a wall between man and the Lord that no one can break.

There are chains around us that we can not escape from.

We are in a grave that we will never be able to leave.

 

Jesus did something on that cross that made all of those things null and void.

 

When a man decides to follow the Lord there is a miracle that no one can fathom…..

He becomes free.

He becomes a son.

He becomes an eternal being.

 

Jesus was not a man of arrogance or pride.  He was not offended when Nicodemus decided to visit Him at night because he was afraid of what others might do to him.

 

In that meeting, Jesus gave us an offer that can break us away from the impossible.

 

He said that we could be born AGAIN.

 

John 3 16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

 

God would have been justified to leave us broken and hateful.

 

He would have been justified to condemn us to Hell.

 

He could have “held us accountable”.

 

Instead….

 

He called us out of the grave.

 

He broke down the wall that stood between us.

 

He tore off our chains and threw them into the trash.

 

It is our duty to walk out of our grave and WORSHIP Him.

 

This is the only hope the world has ever known.

 

In The Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

Know anyone who might like these?  Encourage them to jump on to 2minutewarning.blog and hit the FOLLOW button!!!

Coach J