August 19th

August 19^th – John 11:37-57

Please go give the passage a read!

Another one where I don’t have much to say… it’s just another retelling of some events. However, I do find it noteworthy that Jesus points out that he stated Lazarus would rise only so that those around would believe him. Sometimes, we see miracles happen, but we do all we can to avoid giving credit to God, where it’s due. Jesus must have known that people then may have tried the same thing, which is why he clarified and ensured everyone heard him saying that Lazarus would be raised from the dead. It would be nice some days if that still happened, so that the credit would go where it was meant to, not to other things like science. There’s even the fact that although science can no longer explain the complexity of life, they will not credit it to God, but instead settle with calling it “Intelligent Design”. People sometimes become so set on not giving the credit to God (which is funny because half the time they are saying they won’t give it to someone they say doesn’t exist anyways, yet deny it is His, implying they must think He exists to deny Him the credit). This is why, although it would be thought that those who saw Lazarus in the tomb for 4 days then up and about would know it was Jesus, Jesus still clarified – he wanted to make sure they knew where credit was due, and gave it to God as they should.

That shall be all! God bless! Shalom!