That makes sense. Of course. It’s obvious. Lazarus is sick. Jesus somehow knows Lazarus is sleeping. That’s good. After all, when a person is sick, he or she needs rest. “Let the man sleep,” they tell Jesus. And they move on.
And yet, they are so far off the mark. The plane on which Jesus operates is foreign to his disciples as of yet. He is far away down the road from where they are. He is trying to teach them a concept they need to grasp, and they are stuck on a term.
What I take from this verse is that often times God makes statements that I just don’t get. I am spiritually obtuse and dense more often than I would like to admit. But God speaks, most often through the pages of His Word. How many times I have read a particular passage and overlooked a timeless truth. I move along. I read and it registers, but not with the power the passage possesses. Then one day it hits me like a ton of bricks. God speaks. He does not give up on me. I must learn not to limit God’s words to what makes sense to me. There is often so much more he is trying to tell me, if I only am willing to listen and let it sink in.
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