AfterGlow (2-28-2010)
Video interpretation of the raising of Lazarus (John 11:1-44)
Watch the passage concerning Lazarus being raised from the dead with your "whole" self. What are your five senses experiencing (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, physical feelings)?
What did you hear, smell and feel?
Jot down some notes of only three of the senses: What did you hear, smell and physically feel while reading this passage?
There are several places Jesus speaks of the state of Lazarus that isn't reality as we know it (see below). Take a moment to consider that Jesus' reality is often different than ours. Are there areas of your life that you need to see God's reality by faith rather than what it appears on the outside?
John 11:4, John 11:11 NIV
When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it.” After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”
Is there a "Lazarus" in your life who needs you?
Feel free to submit a prayer request that we may pray for them.
One last thought...remember the disciples' concern about going back to Judea? Read what happens next...
John 11:45-53 NIV
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. So from that day on they plotted to take his life.