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So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days in the place where He was.

John 11:6, LSB

This area of Scripture seems odd when we read about Lazarus and the love Jesus had for him, yet here we find that Jesus waits two more days. Knowing the end of the story may or may not help with this either. Why did He wait? This question is a question that many struggle with particularly when asking for healing or release from something. It is easy for many to become frustrated with God when His voice seems to be silent and our pleas for help seem to come on deaf ears. Out of our mouths arises, “Why?” God does this often in Scripture. How many years did Sarah wait to have a child? What about Rebecca? Hannah? Elizabeth? We hear much about waiting on God’s hand to do something throughout the Bible. God’s timing is never like our timing. He doesn’t follow our whims or desires, but in our fragility, He gives us what we need when He desires to fulfill that need. Job’s wife told him to “curse God and die!” These words offered no comfort to Job and certainly not his wife, but they were born out of frustration and the human expectation that God would do as we please. This is not how God works. If our cries are in God’s will, He will do it. Jesus raised Lazarus. He raised a young man to life when He saw the pallbearers carrying Him in His coffin on their way to the grave. In these acts, God’s glory was shone. As we pray, as we suffer, our Lord calls us to wait and trust in His mercy, and, in Him, we may find our peace.

Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.