John 11:1–16
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We want instant coffee, instant communication, and instant solutions to our problems. When we are in distress, we cry out to God, and we expect a divine response on our timetable. We send up our prayers like an urgent text message and then stare at the heavens, waiting for the three little dots to appear, signifying that God is typing. But our God is not a cosmic butler, and His ways are not our ways. He is the sovereign Lord of history, and He operates on a schedule that is often inscrutable to us, a schedule designed not for our immediate comfort, but for His ultimate glory and our ultimate good. In this passage, we are invited into one of the most intimate and perplexing moments in the life of our Lord. From a human perspective, this is baffling, even cruel.