Those who believe, though they die, will live!

Morning: Psalm 50; Job 29:1; 31:1-23; Acts 15:1-11

Evening: Psalms 93, 96; John 11:17-29

Jesus’s mission in the world was to defeat the power of death. What does that mean? The power of death is whatever prevents you from being fully alive ... whatever sucks the life out of you or others. But when you are really ‘alive’, you suck out all the marrow of life, so that, when you die, you do not find out that you never really lived (Thoreau). Jesus raised Lazarus, who would eventually die. Until then, I imagine Lazarus’s life was like an amazing new gift to be savoured to the core. He was alive, and he lived.