God Can, But Should He?

[508 words] We marvel at the scene of the tomb of Lazarus. Rightly so. How often is divine power on such spectacular display? The impact of Jesus raising dead Lazarus is evidenced by the thinking of Jewish leaders to kill Lazarus. His being alive was bringing so many people to faith in Jesus that these men felt threatened (John 12:11-12). Perhaps lost in all the excitement of the dead coming to life (and that is pretty exciting) is an insight into the flawed thought processes of man; flaws to which we are all subject. Many of the people present in Bethany on the occasion of Jesus’ arrival after Lazarus had died, were saying, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from dying?” (John 11:37). They had reference to the healing of the man born blind (John 9). Their reasoning was…