Joel M Bradshaw

32When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34“Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

35Jesus wept.

36Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

37But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”–John 11

1. Mary said something similar to her sister Martha
2. It doesn’t mean she was right, though. Jesus could have been present and still allowed Lazarus to die.
3. The will of God was to temporarily raise Lazarus from the dead.
4. I love the fact that our Savior weeps. He would be raising Lazarus in just a few short verses, but Jesus still wept.
5. The tension about Jesus was verse 37. And the answer would have been yes.
6. But keeping someone from dying is different than a resurrection of the dead. They knew it and we know it. It’s why Lazarus had to first die to proclaim the power and glory of Jesus.
7. Are your prayers ever like verse 37? Sarcasm, bitterness, and envy can easily creep into our private moments with God. Especially when we go through hard times or things don’t work out as we had planned. Do you trust Jesus even then?–JMB