Friday, November 15, 2013

Lazarus Raised - Picture the Scene

"He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth."
His voice,
clear and penetrating,
pierces the ear of the dead.
As He speaks,
divinity flashes through humanity.

In His face,
which is lighted up by the glory of God,
the people see the assurance of His power.
Every eye is fastened on the entrance to the cave.
Every ear is bent to catch the slightest sound.
With intense and painful interest all wait for the test of Christ's divinity,
the evidence that is to substantiate His claim to be the Son of God,
or to extinguish the hope forever.

There is a stir in the silent tomb,
and he who was dead stands at the door of the sepulcher.
His movements are impeded by the graveclothes in which he was laid away,
and Christ says to the astonished spectators, "Loose him, and let him go."
 
Again they are shown that the human worker is to co-operate with God.
Humanity is to work for humanity.

Lazarus is set free,
and stands before the company,
not as one emaciated from disease,
and with feeble, tottering limbs,
but as a man in the prime of life, and in the vigor of a noble manhood."
Desire of Ages p.536 E.G.W. / John 11:43,44