The Resurrection Principle

"Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?", John 11:40

Jesus received the message that Lazarus was sick. He loved Lazarus. He stayed where He was two more days. By the time He arrived, Lazarus had been dead four days, past all Jewish cultural hope of revival. This was not an oversight. It was the plan. The glory of God required a greater canvas than a near-death recovery.

Insight There are situations in your life that feel like God arrived too late. The marriage died. The ministry ended. The relationship dissolved. The dream was buried. But the resurrection principle says: God is not limited by the timeline you expected. He does His best work after the mourners have given up and the stone has been rolled into place.

Martha said: "Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." She was not wrong about the biology. She was wrong about its power over the Son of God. Four days of death, four days of decay, four days of absolute impossibility, and then: "Lazarus, come forth."

Insight Jesus wept before the tomb. He was moved with grief. The resurrection principle does not mean God is unmoved by your loss. He enters the grief, the weeping Jesus is the God who weeps with us, and then speaks into it. The same voice that said "let there be light" calls the dead by name.

The thing you buried is not beyond Him. The situation that has four-day old hopelessness is still within reach of the Word. Roll away the stone. Make room for the miracle.

Prayer Lord, I roll away the stone of my unbelief. I have been rehearsing the death of this situation instead of expecting its resurrection. You are the resurrection and the life. Whatever You call by name will live. I choose to believe that You are still at work in what I have given up on. Amen.