April 6, 2023
Thursday
Resurrection and the Life Sunday
1 Thessalonians 4: 16-18
4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.”
It’s a question we usually hear from children as they contemplate the death of a loved one: “Why did Grandpa have to die?” It’s one of those questions that is totally reasonable yet hard to answer in childlike terms.
There are biological and biblical reasons people die. But it’s a theological reason that gives us the most comfort: Death is for the glory of God and His Son, Jesus Christ. When Jesus heard that His friend Lazarus was ill, He waited several days before visiting, by which time Lazarus was dead. But it was what He said when first hearing the news of Lazarus’ illness that helps us most: “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God.” Just as Jesus displayed God’s glory by raising Lazarus from the dead, so His glory will be revealed when we are raised from the dead as well.
The promise of Scripture is that Jesus is the resurrection and the life. All who believe in Him, though they die, will live to the glory of God (John 11:25-26).
A point to ponder…
Bless God that there is in us a resurrection life, and that there awaits us a resurrection morning!
J. J. Bonar
Read the Bible through in a year
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