That We Believe and He Be Glorified

This really touch me today with what I have been going thru and it just seems like my prayers are going unanswered. I know God hears and all things happen for a reason. I just ask and pray for God's will to be done and if these problems are for something God is trying to show me or do then I thank him for them.


John 11:14--Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Lazarus, with his sisters, were some of the closest people in the Bible to Jesus Christ.

Yet Lazarus got sick onto death. (Yet Jesus said is not unto death.) And not only was Jesus not there, but He did not come right away when He heard. Not only that, He stayed away until Lazarus had died. It was Christ's intention that Lazarus die. But it was not Christ's intention for him to stay in the grave. Jesus both promised he would rise again and then Jesus made good on that promise.

Jesus said this entire episode took place according to verse 15
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe....

As close as we may be to Christian there are those times when we feel like we are spiritually "sick unto death." In many of those times we call out to the Lord but we sense He is so far away. We might question

Why He is allowing this to happen
Why He won't answer our prayers
Why He won't draw near and help us

But His intent is that we might believe.
Through our spiritual illness
Through the death of whatever would have been our dream
Then through the promises of God and
Through His eventual resurrection of that spiritual hope
We believe and the Son of God is glorified thereby.
Illness, the spiritual kind, is never ever pleasant. But it has the potential of such great glory after a while. Oh that we would trust in Christ in those times!