Jn.11:43,44 – Then with a loud voice Jesus shouted with authority: “Lazarus! Come out of the tomb!” Then in front of everyone, Lazarus, who had died four days earlier, slowly hobbled out.
This is the most profound miracle in the ministry of Jesus. He not only healed someone and raised them from the dead, He did it publicly. Death is our ultimate and final enemy and He conquers it with His word. Everyone who saw or heard the eyewitness accounts were shocked and stunned. How could Jesus overcome death? Should we be shocked by this miracle? I don’t think so. He created the very body that died and went into a tomb before He raised it from the dead. His creating and sustaining the universe is a far greater miracle than raising one man from the dead. He forms billions of people in their mother’s womb, sustains them, feeds them, and carries them along throughout their lives. Why should we be surprised at Him raising the dead when He is the Creator and Sustainer of all things. Here is Augustine on this miracle.
“Among all the miracles wrought by our Lord Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Lazarus holds a foremost place in preaching. But if we consider attentively who did it, our duty is to rejoice rather than to wonder. A man was raised up by Him who made man: for He is the only One of the Father, by whom, as you know, all things were made. And if all things were made by Him, what wonder is it that one was raised by Him, when so many are daily brought into the world by His power? It is a greater deed to create men than to raise them again from the dead. Yet He deigned both to create and to raise again; to create all, to resuscitate some.”
Jesus is the Resurrection. Resurrection life flows out from Him to all of us who believe. He created me, protected me, called me by name, and raised me from my tomb of death. Today, His resurrection life renews me, empowers me, heals me, guides me, and enlightens me. So we live in a world of miracles, there are literally miracles all around us. As we get near to Him we begin to have eyes to see all that He is doing all around us. He is the Resurrection, believe in Him and Resurrection life will be your world.
