This post comes from SH who shares this with the team:
In Sunday school not so very long ago, we were studying John 11:
“Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, ‘Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.’ When Jesus heard that, He said, ‘This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.’ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.”
I’d never noticed that before–that when they told Jesus there was an emergency situation, He didn’t drop everything and rush over like they would have liked, but rather, He stayed where He was for 2 more days, leading our teacher to remind us that while God doesn’t do things on our time schedule, He always does them in time, in His perfect time.
And so I’m praying Mary and Martha’s prayer for Jennifer, Lord, behold, she whom You love is sick…
Love, SH