From Death to Life

In December 2019, a 34-year-old woman named Audrey Schuman was hiking in the Spanish Pyrenees Mountains with her husband. She developed extreme hypothermia and went into cardiac arrest. Her condition got worse and worse while she waited for help to arrive. Her body got as low as 64°F. Her husband said, "I was trying to feel a pulse... I couldn't feel a breath. I couldn't feel a heartbeat."

When she arrived at the hospital, her heart had stopped beating for six hours. There were no vital signs. Miraculously, doctors were able to revive her.

In John 10, Jesus encountered a man who had been dead for four days, his friend Lazarus. Some Jewish rabbis taught the superstition that a person's spirit hovered over their body for four days after they died, in case they were to come back to life. After the fourth day, the spirit was said to leave the body. Of course that isn't true, but it shows that Lazarus was really dead. There was no hope for reviving him.

That's when Jesus showed his humanity. He wept. He wept not because he did not have the power over death, but because he had passion and love for his friend. Then Jesus showed that he was God. He called Lazarus to come forth from the dead - and Lazarus walked right out of the grave. Jesus tells us, just like He told Martha, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who lives and believes in Me will never die." Is anything impossible for Him in your life today?