"Don’t cry." — Luke 7:13
I go around and around the Bible and I keep coming back to this verse. A widow has lost her only son. The funeral procession carries his dead body to the grave. Everyone is clothed with sadness.
Everyone but Jesus. "Don’t cry," He says.
Call it audacity. Call it power. Call it compassion. Jesus slices through human tragedy and brings to us what we didn’t dare imagine: life from the dead.
This time when I visit this verse, I ask God the question that troubles me. "Why did You only raise one widow’s son? There were many. Why did you leave the rest?"
The Lord reminds me that the show isn’t over. This world is too small and this life is too short for God to show us the whole load of kindness. The book doesn’t end in chapter one, though God shows us enough about Himself so that we start to have a pretty good idea of how things are going to turn out.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
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