John 11:17-27
Can we trust God? Jesus loved the three siblings who lived in Bethany. Their house had been a place of rest for the one who had no place of his own to rest his head. They asked Jesus for help, anticipating he would drop everything and run to them. Instead, he waited, they wondered, and Lazarus died. When he arrived, they had some hard questions for Jesus. He asked them to trust him. Jesus asks us to trust him, too. Who is Jesus? Why is he waiting? Does what we know about God help us to trust him when we don’t know what he is doing?
Quotes:
A. W. Tozer: God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
Larry Nixon: when God wants to drill someone and skill someone and thrill someone; when God wants to mold someone to play the noblest part, when he yearns with all his heart to create so great and bold a one that all the world’s amazed, watch his methods, watch his ways . . . how he hammers him and hurts him and with mighty blows converts him into trial shapes of clay that only God understands, while he lifts beseeching hands, how God bends but never breaks when his good he undertakes, how God uses whom he chooses and with every act induces him to try his glory out. . . God knows what he is about . . .
John Donne: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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