LIFE...

Here's something to think about:


We often think about things or events as a result of something 
right? Life happens, death happens, good things happen, bad things 
happen, but all these things are a consequence of something. 


When Lazarus died, and Jesus told Martha, her brother would rise again, she said 
in John 11:24 : "I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection in the last day." 
She had the same mentality as most of us humans.  She believed Lazarus 
would rise again as a consequence of something.  As a consequence of when 
eternity comes, then only then would he rise.  But Jesus went on destroy that 
notion.  Notice what he says in verse 25, "Jesus said unto her, "I am the 
resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live..."


What is Jesus saying?  Basically, it's not that Jesus has the ability to go 
get life somewhere and give it to Lazarus, or he could find some way to resurrect him.  
Jesus is saying, He himself is the resurrection, and He himself is life.  
Those things abide in Him. It's a subtle yet great difference. There's no caveat attached to 
life or death with Him.  Death couldn't defeat Jesus, because He is life itself.