On this exceptional time away from every and any distraction to spend time seeking The Lord, we see and sense that there is a fire that has been rekindled, a fire that has been burning within with the Baptist of The Holy Sprit. As we continue, there’s one story in particular that has always caught my attention, and that story is the story of Lazarus’ resurrection.
Yesterday, we had to answer the pertinent question God asked the prophet Ezekiel as if He was directly talking to us. Son of Man can these dry bones live ? The answer to that was about prophesying and speaking life based on God’s word. We see here that Lazarus had been sick, and had a promise that the sickness was not to lead him to death. Some days later the Bible tells us that Lazarus ended up dying and was buried. Four days later after having being in the tomb, Jesus came and brought him back to life.
Now the thing that really caught my attention is that as Lazarus came out of the grave, the Bible tells us that his hands and feet were bound in graveyard clothes and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Being bound, although alive his mobility was restricted. He couldn’t use his hands or feet freely, nor could he see since his face was covered with a linen cloth. His resurrection was a God’s at work, his coming out of the grave was still God at work, but yet he needed to be loosed by probably the people that wrapped in in those clothes in the first place.
This simply tells me, there are times where the Spirit of the living God will bring us back to life and after that we will need to be loosed from the bound of graveyard clothes. As clothes could also represent a person’s character or emotional state, or even habits we see here that these graveyard clothes kept him captive and restricted movement or production, as well as vision. My prayer is that we will be set free of everything that comes to blind us, stop our feet of entering into possession of everything God has given us and our hands for taking a hold or stopping our entreprises from being accomplished. As Jesus asked the people to loose Lazarus and let him go, my prayer and desire is that you will be loosed of every bondage and you will be let go to be able to taste and see That The Lord his good, to work with your hands and finally with your feet, enter into possession of what God has given you and destin for you.
Text to meditate on; John 11:44, Psalm 144:1, Joshua 1:3, Deuteronomy 30:9, Ecclesiastes 9:10