Dead?

 

I have a beautiful clematis that grows up my mailbox post.  it is a dry, tangled mess in the winter, but it isn’t dead, it is only sleeping.  When a few warm days come in February coupled with rains in March, the clematis springs back to life.  And in John chapter 11, Jesus spoke to Martha about the resurrection.  Like my clematis, Lazarus was not really dead.  Oh, he was dead alright, but Jesus said to Martha in John 11:25&26, “… I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”  Martha knew with her head that Jesus was the resurrection, but she needed to know with her heart that He was the resurrection.  My daddy is dead, my mother is dead, my brother Phillip and my brother Galen are both dead, but they will all live again because Jesus has the power over death.  And like my clematis that only looks dead, my family will live again because they knew the One Who has the power over death!  Praise the Lord for His power and for His resurrection!