Driving with God

“Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?” – John 11:37

Ever heard this saying, ‘Put God in the driver’s seat.”?

I prefer to have Him in the front seat. I think He does too.Isn’t that how we should be exercising our free will?

I have always thought of God sitting next to me and giving me directions and either I take them or I don’t.

He has always been giving us directions on this “road” to eternal life, but sometimes we just get too over confident and think we know the way better than He does.

You know what gets us even more?

When we hit some hardship along this “road”. Then we think we DEFINETLY know better than God.

We fail to recognize the fact that these hardships along this “road” are meant for the glory of God. They are there so that God can use us as instruments to remind the society around us of His greatness, awesomeness and every other positive adjective you can find in the dictionary.

Take the above verse for example. The people who gathered outside of Lazarus’s tomb murmured among themselves, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?”

Reflecting on this, I came up with 2 questions.

1) Did Jesus purposely come to visit Lazarus AFTER he died?

2) What would the life of Lazarus and the people around him be like after this great miracle?

1) The first question takes us back to the point I made above. GOD KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING and often times we forget that, especially when we encounter hardships. If he would have come a few days before and healed Lazarus instead of waiting to bring Him back to life, how many of the people in that town would have turned their hearts to God? Through Lazarus’s death, God was glorified. If God used a DEAD body as an instrument to touch people’s hearts, imagine what He could do if we offered up our bodies as LIVING sacrifices.

2) What would life be like for Lazarus after his resurrection?

Besides the fact that he would be the talk of the town, something in his heart would transform. He would not be afraid to offer up his life as a sacrifice, or even die, because he knows that with God even death is possible to overcome.

What about the people who witnessed the miracle?

How was there life transformed?

Suppose if this happened to our own mother, father, brother, sister, friends etc, how would OUR hearts be transformed?

Would it be a come and go experience or would it cause us to “renew our minds” and make our hearts clean in order to offer it up to the Lord so that he can use it for His glory?

It not really following God unless you let Him lead right?