It's easy to find ourselves in a place where we approach God based off of our own limitations and failures. Meaning we go to Church on a Sunday morning and sing about the awesome Power Of God's Love, while screaming on the inside about how we screwed up the night before. Asking ourselves "How can this Loving God Love a Failure Like Me?" Or we open the Bible and read these amazing stories about Jesus on this earth going about performing miracle after miracle and we find ourselves at a place asking "where is this powerful God in my Situation? or "How can this all powerful God have time to care about my marriage, financial situation, my broken relationship etc?"
By doing this We place limits on God where there is no limits. God is all powerful no matter what situation you are facing. And He cares about every detail of your life.
In John Chapter 11 we read about a Man named Lazarus who passed away. Lazarus and his two sisters, Mary and Martha, were friends of Jesus. When Lazarus fell ill, his sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is sick." When Jesus heard the news, he waited two more days before going to Lazarus' hometown of Bethany. Jesus knew that he would do a great miracle for God's glory and, therefore, he was not in a hurry. The purpose for this miracle was to strengthen the faith of His followers
When Jesus arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had already been dead and in the tomb for four days. When Martha discovered that Jesus was on his way, she went out to meet him. "Lord," she said, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died." Jesus told Martha, "Your brother will rise again." But Martha thought he was talking about the final resurrection of the dead. Then Jesus said these important words: "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." Martha then went and told Mary that Jesus wanted to see her. Jesus had not yet entered the village, most likely to avoid stirring up the crowd and calling attention to himself. The town of Bethany was not far from Jerusalem where the Jewish leaders were plotting against Jesus.When Mary met Jesus she was grieving with strong emotion over her brother's death.
The Jews with her were also weeping and mourning. Deeply moved by their grief, Jesus wept with them.
Jesus wept NOT because he forgot what He was capable of doing. Jesus Wept NOT because He was overwhelmed with the situation He was facing. Jesus Wept NOT because His Power left Him. Jesus Wept because He seen the people that He cared for deeply for mourning and weeping over someone they cared greatly for.
Jesus was truly human. Only a human
could feel with so much depth and so much beauty. And Jesus was truly divine. Only a
Savior – only God – could raise a man from four days in the grave. This story is fascinating – not merely for the miracle – but because of the depth of
human emotion and LOVE Jesus shows to those in their time of need. The people were so disappointed in the Master they had come to love and to trust. They felt abandoned and when Jesus arrived, four days after
their brother had passed, they sought his comfort all while gently rebuking him
for not being where they thought they needed him.
Jesus knew the moment He entered Bethany
that He would raise Lazarus from the dead. He knew that He would perform one of His greatest miracles. And yet, when He met the people where they were in their
grief. He felt their sorrow as His own and He wept with
them.
So often we want Jesus to answer our
cries with what we can see as the perfect solution to our problem. But what we
have to learn from this is that Jesus’ healing – Jesus’ desire to
fulfill our true needs – is so much bigger than what we can see in our little
minds. And sometimes, to prepare us for the miracle he has planned down the
road, He knows we need Him to walk along side us in the midst of our suffering
and sorrow and we need him to weep with us. And without that good cry, we will
never be ready to receive the blessing He has waiting on the other side of the
valley.
Wherever you are at today: There is NO situation to great for our God. God has not over looked you no matter how you feel. God is walking with you. God is working for you. God has not forgotten you. God is weeping with you and cares for you deeper then you can ever Imagine. Be Encouraged -- Let Your Faith Be Strengthened Today - Your God Wept for You
"Jesus Wept" (John 11:35)
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