John 11:23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
This is stunning! Wonderful! Amazing! It seems reasonable that Jesus is telling her what He asked of God. He asked that Lazarus would be raised from the dead, and He is confident that His Father has heard and will give it. In Romans 8:26-28, Paul gives us the same confidence in Jesus’ intercession. We may not know how to pray, but that’s not our confidence. Our confidence is in God always doing His will with regard to us, and that is to work everything that happens for our greatest good and His greatest glory through the intercession of the Holy Spirit and our Lord Jesus Christ. We also know what our highest good is and what brings Him the greatest glory, namely, that everything is being used to conform us to the image of Christ. Another way of saying this is that God is working everything so that we become vessels of Jesus’ love for His glory. Lazarus’ death was so that God’s love and glory could be revealed as Jesus took authority over death. Whatever assails us is just the setting for God to reveal His love and glory in Jesus as He takes authority over it. Settle for nothing less than resurrection power revealed in love.
