Resurrrection

Jesus, and his disciples, are out in the country. A man comes with a message. One of Jesus’ friends was really sick. The man, and his family, know that Jesus loves, and can heal his friend. They know Jesus loves all people. So, Jesus camps out, right where he is, for the next four days. (Which does not seem to show concern.)

After the four days is over, Jesus announces that they need to return to this friend’s city, because he has died.

And when they arrive at the city, he meets separately with the man’s two sisters. They both lament the fact, that if Jesus had been there, their brother would still be alive.

He tells one sister that her brother will rise, and live again. She agrees, that at the end of time, when all rise, he will live again. And Jesus gives his message: “I am the Resurrection.”

And to prove his point, although the man has been dead four days, decomposition well under way, sinking to high, high heaven, Jesus has the stone, sealing the man’s tomb, rolled away. After briefly thanking Father, he calls the four-days dead, and rotting, man to come out of the tomb. And he does.

God has the power of life, and death. He has focused our experience of life to move through our relationship with a particular man. And through that man, our relationship with God himself.

Life is not about miracles, and power. It is about a love relationship with the Father of the universe. And all of these other things, are about fostering, and promoting, that relationship.