Funny how two people can hear the same message yet get two totally different things from it. Just another way to show the power of our God.
What I am specifically speaking of is the church sermon we heard this morning. It was over John 11. The story of Lazarus and his sisters Martha & Mary. You can read it here. Anywho, after church, Billy and I discussed what we got out of it. And in that moment, as if after reading that passage it wasn't clear enough, I got a tiny glimpse of a reminder of how powerful our God is. Billy got a message 180 degrees different from the one I got, but we both sat in the same room, and heard the same sermon.
I shall not bore you with the details but rather focus on the glory of our God. After today, All I can do is thank him. Though my future lies uncertain.. very uncertain as college is coming to a close and the job hunt will begin soon, one thing I will always know.. He is good and everything is in His timing. That is another thing. Some wise person once told me, you can't tell God when to do something unless you want to see Him laugh.. errr.. something like that. Basically, everything is in the timing of the Lord and no matter what you're going through, no matter how much you think He isn't there, or how much you think He isn't looking over you, He is.
In John 11, Jesus let Lazarus die. Let me say that again. Jesus knew he was ill, and did not go to save him when He first received word of his condition. Four days later, after Lazarus had been long dead, Jesus arrived in Bethany and rose Lazarus from the grave. Not for Martha or Mary, not for the people of Bethany, not even for the sake of Lazarus' life, but so that the people - both back in Jesus' day and us as we read it in the bible - may know that even when we feel abandoned and alone we cannot give up hope or lose faith in our God. For He is always good.
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