Passion: An Awakening Experience (1)

Check it out! Our life is small. Whoa! Our life is just a speck. And, God is absolutely HUGE! When we look up at the stars or across the Grand Canyon, we might, just might, get a feeling of insignificance. Let me share with you, if you will, an experience like no other I have had before.

Let’s compare our life to John 11. What is John 11? The death of Lazarus. Lazarus was ill. Jesus was friends with him and Martha. So, when Jesus found out his friend, Lazarus, was sick, he didn’t just go immediately to visit Lazarus. No. He waited a few days. Then, after 2 days, Jesus told his disciples, “Lazarus has died, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

As we know, or maybe not, Jesus awoke Lazarus when he visited him.

What can we learn from this? Like Lazarus, we must die. We must die to worldly things. Jesus wants to move the stone. He doesn’t care about the odor that we have. He’s not offended by you/us.

Let us move the doubt from us. Jesus says to unbind us and let us go. He doesn’t just say wake up. He doesn’t just put up with the odor we have.

Let us LIVE!