The Search for Lazarus

“He s not dead, he is only sleeping, he can easily be awoken with just the right shove, the right nudge. Be very wary in your search for Lazarus”

I have been searching for a long time now, this search for Lazarus. He was my friend, the very best of them. He knew me inside out, just as I knew him, in my earlier years, we had spent so much time together and we were literally one. I am not too sure when I lost him, but I do know it has been a while and I have combed this earth searching for him. Been to many different churches, come across many different doctrines, I have come across so many people who knew him, knew of both of us together and where sincerely shocked that we were not together. Most times the people that knew us together had last seen us together, other times, the people that didn't suggested ways and means of getting him back. Some methods were downright shocking, others I closed my ears to, the ones that seemed somewhat reasonable, I tried. With time however, I found myself trying the downright shocking and listening to things I would have closed my ears to. I met false teachers, moved with false leaders, talked to people who were so far gone they didn't know who they were so how would they know where to find my friend and brother Lazarus. I searched for so long, so hard and so wide, up till today.

I just realised however that I and Lazarus were one, in more than one sense. We were one and the same. You ask how? I had been dead in sin for so long, doing the things that killed me spiritually and prepared me for a greater death after and Christ saved me. Just like He did so long ago over the tomb of Lazarus, He stood over the tomb that was my life, my dead sinful life, pronounced me forgiven and proclaimed that I come out. All I have been doing all along is search for that sinful nature. In my search for Lazarus, I had come across all sorts, people, information, temptations, you call it, I saw it, you tell it, I experienced it, all for a notion, a belief that I had all along inside of me. I am not dead, I am not sleeping either. I am alive because He proclaimed it so, I search no more because He lives in me. Lazarus my friend, my brother, I search no more for you.

You were dead in sins and your sinful desires were not yet cut away,
Then He gave you a share in the very life of Christ, for he forgave all your sins,
He blotted out the charges proved against you, the list of his commandments
You had not obeyed. He took this list of sins and destroyed it by nailing it.
Nailing it to Christ's cross. By this, He took away Satan's power to accuse you of sin,,
and God openly displayed to the whole world Christ's triumph at the cross,
Where your sins were taken away (Col 2:13-15) God openly displayed YOU!!!

Shalom