John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?" Here we are in a graveyard. We are at Lazarus' tomb and we come into the middle of a conversation between Martha and Jesus. The talk begins in verse 21 and goes to verse 27 and is profound. We always think that Martha, because she was a busy housewife, missed out on Jesus' teachings. I have my suspicions that she was listening more than we know. If you've read this passage before you know that it is an amazing exchange. Jesus brought a lot of theological content into his exchanges with women. Mary, before he was born, sings an amazing song in Luke 1. Jesus asking for water from a Samaritan woman helps us to see that, sinner though she was, she'd been thinking about eternal things. The Syrophnecian woman whose daughter was near death, is another example tha...
These are devotional, and other, thoughts from a guy who lived in Brazil from 1997 to 2023. I recount personal experiences and Bible applications with most of my posts. These "posts" are mostly for me but if you want to, you can read them too!