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Jesus Christ took all the terror out of death for the believer. Death touches everyone, whether lost or saved, but the results are completely different. For the lost, death is the worst thing that can happen to them. For the believer, death is the best thing that can happen because, as Paul said, “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” If the believer is totally committed to Jesus Christ, he has much to look forward to. The hardest part is that the believers leave loved ones behind them when they step into the presence of the Lord.
When Lazarus died, he left his sisters, Mary and Martha, behind him. By the time Jesus arrived, Lazarus had been dead for four days already, but his sisters were still weeping and were crushed with grief. The bitter period of mourning would probably have continued for about seven days, but the crushing grief would have continued for the rest of their lives. The Bible says that Jesus wept, but not for Lazarus. The Lord knew that Lazarus was happier than he had ever been. Jesus wept when He saw Mary, Martha, and their Jewish friends weeping. Whenever a child of God is hurting, God is hurting more. But the greater the grief, the sweeter the reunion. All Jesus had to do was say, “Lazarus, come forth!” Those three words turned the worst day of their lives into the best day of their lives. After the reunion, the resurrected Lazarus was more precious to his sisters than he had been before.
When Jesus approached the city of Nain, he crossed paths with a funeral procession. That was no accident. God’s providence put Jesus in the exact right place at the exact right time. There was a widow who had nothing left in the world except for her son, and now he was gone. Many neighbors accompanied the bereaved mother to support her in her crushing grief, but there was nothing that they could do. They didn’t expect to meet Jesus. All Jesus had to do was tell the boy, “Arise,” and the funeral turned into a festival. The young man was more precious to his mother after the reunion than he had ever been before.
Jairus was desperate to find Jesus and bring Him home before his young daughter died. They didn’t make it in time. Just before they arrived someone brought the news. His only daughter had just died. It was too late. Or was it? All Jesus had to do was say, “Maid, arise,” and the little girl bounced out of bed like a bunny.
So why doesn’t the Lord Jesus do that for every grieving Christian family? Some day He will. As the Lord Jesus promised, “The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation” (John 5:28, 29). Lazarus, the son of the widow, and the daughter of Jairus, all eventually died again, so the reunions were only temporary. Our resurrection will be better. In our resurrection the reunions will be forever. Loved ones who left this life suffering unbearable pain will walk with us on streets of gold in perfect health and eternal youth, and that party will never end.
