{"id":104616,"date":"2020-11-23T04:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T10:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=104616"},"modified":"2020-11-17T07:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T13:54:29","slug":"17-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/23\/17-a\/","title":{"rendered":"17.a. “But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John 11:1 \u00a0 <\/span>Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, \u201cLord, he whom you love is ill.\u201d But when Jesus heard it he said, \u201cThis illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples, \u201cLet us go to Judea again.\u201d The disciples said to him, \u201cRabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?\u201d Jesus answered, \u201cAre there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.\u201d After saying these things, he said to them, \u201cOur friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.\u201d The disciples said to him, \u201cLord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.\u201d Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, \u201cLazarus has died, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jesus had a close relationship with this family. When\u00a0Lazarus was sick<\/b>\u00a0it was natural for them to bring their need to Jesus. It was expected that if He miraculously met the needs of so many others, He would meet their need also. Mary and Martha did not specifically ask Jesus to come and heal Lazarus. They felt they did not need to, that it was enough to simply tell Jesus what the problem was. John reminds us that Jesus did genuinely love these sisters and their brother. It was an important reminder, showing that a testing of their faith was not a denial of His love. It seems strange that Jesus did not immediately act upon this great need. The delay was probably mystifying to the disciples and agonizing to Mary and Martha. \u00a0It is clear that Jesus prolonged the sorrow of Mary and Martha. These were\u00a0two more days<\/b> of agonized grief for them. Yet, \u201cSorrow is prolonged for the same reason as it was sent. It is of little use to send it for a little while.\u201d (Maclaren) Jesus first refused to grant their request and then He fulfilled it after showing that He does things according to the timing and will of God, not man. Through His actions, Jesus demonstrated that His delays were not denials. They would bring greater glory to God. Jesus\u2019 disciples were shocked that He would return to the region of Judea when He was a wanted man there. Jesus responded with by saying that He still had work to do. The\u00a0twelve hours<\/b>\u00a0were a figurative way to speak of the time allotted by God the Father for the earthly work of Jesus. Nothing can shorten our time. We only have that time, so it must not be wasted. There is enough time for everything that needs to be done. Jesus is saying that a man must finish the day\u2019s work within the day, for the night comes when work is ended.\u201d \u201cThere are but twelve hours in the day, and it will be sunset before you dream of it. Get done what God has sent you here to do.\u201d (Morrison)<\/p>\n

We each have a fixed time to accomplish and do the will and purpose God has appointed us for.\u00a0 <\/span>We are in no danger as we walk through the darkness of this world, we walk in the light of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John 11:1 \u00a0 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, \u201cLord, he whom you love is ill.\u201d … Continue reading “17.a. “But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14594,199,14589,3510,223,5039,3149,2627,14592,539,8450,4934,3509,14590,14591,220,7717,224,1447,14593],"class_list":["post-104616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-awaken","tag-believe","tag-bethany","tag-died","tag-disciples","tag-fallen-asleep","tag-glorified","tag-glory-of-god","tag-hair","tag-heard","tag-ill","tag-judea","tag-lazarus","tag-mary-martha","tag-ointment","tag-rabbi","tag-sister","tag-son-of-god","tag-stumble","tag-walks-in-the-night"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104619,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104616\/revisions\/104619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}