An Incredible Moment at Nain

I started to wonder why Jesus would choose to raise this guy from the dead. There was no faith involved. No lessons to teach. Nothing to show the religious leaders. So why bring this guy back from the dead?

I sense that He probably knew what His own mother would eventually have to go through. Maybe Mary was already a widow by this time. And we know that Mary had other children, but I don’t think anything can prepare a mother’s heart for the loss of a child. How gut-wrenching. And if Jesus could save one mother from having to go through this, then why not?

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On a sidenote: I need some advice from you girls b/c I don’t know who else to turn to. I have a friend who is a Christian. She has been saved for about 4-5 years now, and she says she wants to grow in her walk. The problem is that her actions don’t seem to reflect that. She goes to a spiritually dead church, and she knows that they are spiritually dead, but since they are only 5 minutes away, its easier because she doesn’t have to get up as early. She doesn’t read her Bible. She talks badly about other people – she is very prejudiced. And her tv is her constant companion and nothing comes above that – not the Bible, not church – because that “is her only time to herself”. And she is “too tired after working all day to want to do anything else.” We even talked about lent recently – we did it together for the first time last year. She said she liked participating in Lent and she wanted to do it again, but she didn’t have anything in her life that she could give up right now. Im not judging, but I am worried. Besides praying for her, I don’t know what else to do. And really it wouldn’t bother me if she wouldn’t say she really wanted to grow. How do I deal with this?

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And if you are interested, I am taking a cue from the last lesson and 1st Corinthians 13 is what I am memorizing at the moment. Not just memorizing, but meditating on each verse of the day as I learn it so I can, hopefully, really ingrain it into who I am and who I want to become. I have faith that God will show me what to memorize when I am done with that chapter.