‘I AM….’

‘I AM….’

Jesus said unto her, ‘I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.’

John 11:25

When we have lost all hope, we stand greatly in need of Christ. Our text lies within the middle of a humanly hopeless circumstance. Lazarus was, by this time, dead and buried for days. Mary and Martha were grieving and hopeless. Christ had, for His Own Divine Purpose, waited until this moment to appear. Notice, please, that Christ bears with the underlying reproach of the sisters’ remark, ‘If you had been here, my brother would not have died.’ Christ makes, what seems to the sisters, to be a general statement, ‘Your brother shall rise again.’ They respond in a theological way. ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.’ Christ points them immediately to Himself. He says, ‘I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.’ Here is the answer for our hopelessness. Here is the Balm of Gilead for our bereft and desolate souls, in the worst of our circumstances. Christ ever points us to His Own Great Self. The answer for our most hopeless situations does not lie in ourselves, nor in our ability to preach truth to ourselves, or claim the promises, or argue ourselves into right thinking. Our hope is in Christ. Christ points us to Himself.  Wherever you are today, Child of Grace; no matter how hopeless you are; no matter how many things seem to be against you, look to Christ. He is your Hope when you are most hopeless. He is the Great ‘I AM.’ He points you today to Himself. He is your Rock in the midst of a rolling sea. Look to Christ today. He will not disappoint.

Our Most Holy and Wise God, all our hope is in You.
You are our stay, when all else around us fails. 
From the end of the earth will we cry unto You.
When our heart is overwhelmed, lead us to the Rock that is higher than we are.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning