John 11:45
"Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on Him."
"LAZARUS, COME FORTH!!!" Jesus said and the man, brother and friend to all those present, who laid in his grave for four days; got up and walked OUT!!! These people had seen Lazarus sick and dying. They saw him dead. They attended his funeral. They mourned him. They comforted and helped Martha and Mary with the death of their brother. And now, NOW, he stands before them living and breathing! Mind blowing JUST begins to describe this event!
All of them and ALL of us, have low expectations for our Lord and Savior. We want our blind eyes to opened. We want our lame feet to walk again. All the while Jesus has defeated sin and death! He gives us eternal life! We will see forever and beyond! We will not only walk out of our graves but fly into the arms of GOD!!!
Today's verse highlights that the eyewitnesses thay were here did believe in Jesus after this event. Many of them will go on to see Jesus also return from His own grave!!! These first believers knew the man who was Jesus and then they experienced Him as GOD! SO MANY generations later we can embrace the idea of GOD and often find it hard to wrap our minds around Him being a man also. There is one thing we need to know for sure; as Jesus said to Martha; "I Am The Resurrection, and The Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die."
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