January
2008
Loose It and Let It Go!
When Jesus finally turned up at Bethany, Martha and Mary had some major reservations about his timing. If only he had come earlier, he could have healed their brother Lazarus before he died. Jesus’ response to Martha was the he, personally, is the resurrection and the life. It mattered not when he came, but where his presence is. In other words where he is there is resurrection no matter what the circumstances are or how dire they may seem. Martha confessed that she did in fact believe in him and who he was (John 11:27). So the frustration was not a lack of faith, but a failure to understand the significance of the presence of God in connection with God’s seeming bad timing. When Jesus did raise Lazarus, he told his sisters to release him and let him go (he was bound with grave clothes). In the same way we must recognize that if God is at work among us, even in our own personal lives, it is his presence that makes the difference, not what we may think is the correct course of action on his part at some specific time that suits us. So it is time to release our lives and ministries from grave clothes of complacency, low expectations, laziness, unbelief, lack of effort, failure to plan ahead, preoccupation with other things, self pity and so forth, so that we can fully appreciate the power of the resurrection that comes with the presence of the one who is the resurrection and the life (John 11:25)!
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