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October 28, 2022

Not Improving but Enlivening

John 11:6 When therefore He heard that he was sick, He remained at that time in the place where He was for two days. (39) Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was deceased, said to Him, Lord, by now he smells, for it is the fourth day that he is there. (25) Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live;

Why was it that the Lord waited for two days instead of going immediately upon receiving the news of Lazarus' sickness? Strictly speaking, the Lord waited for two days because He would not only heal people; rather, He would enliven us. The Lord never heals according to our understanding; He heals by enlivening... According to the old concept, healing means to reform or to improve you. But the Lord never comes to improve you or to regulate your behavior. He always comes to enliven you. The Lord's only intention is to impart Himself to you as the enlivening life. [For example, you are a person with a bad temper] . The more you pray for the healing of your temper, the worse your temper will be. The Lord will never come to heal, but He waits... waits... waits... until you are dead. He will not answer your prayer for healing, but He will wait until your sickness turns into death...When you awake to the fact that you are dead, buried, and even stinking with bad odors, the Lord will then come to enliven you. What does it mean to improve, reform, or to regulate one's behavior? It simply means to make the original man better by the means of the original self. But Christ comes to regenerate and remake us with Himself. The Lord would not heal the original man; He waits until the original man is dead. Therefore, when you are so full of the water of death that you stink with the odor of death, then the Lord will come to recreate you and resurrect you out of that death into Himself as life in resurrection.

Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Witness Lee, Life-Study of John, pp. 290-292. Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA. Please visit us at www.emanna.com. Send comments to: [email protected].

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