"Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" (John 11:37)
Lazarus was sick.
Lazarus died.
Jesus wept.
Jesus was a friend of Lazarus and his family. One would think that upon hearing his friend was sick that Jesus would rush to his side. That part of the story can be so confusing. Why would Jesus wait? Why would He let His friend die when He could have healed him?
If Jesus healed Lazarus it would have been a great miracle. However, Jesus raising him from the dead was an even greater one.
Pritchard uses this quote to further explain, Erwin Lutzer from The Vanishing Power of Death: "The delays of Deity are not because of insensitivity to our present needs, but because of greater sensitivity to our ultimate needs.
Our ultimate needs are to have God so powerfully involved in our lives that we know we need not fear death. Our ultimate needs are for God to walk along our side and be with us in our brokenness. Our ultimate needs were met when Jesus Christ died on the cross and was raised for the dead all for us.
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