I thought I knew this passage. Turns out I’d just gotten used to it.
I was studying John 11 today and something in it hit me like a gut-punch. Four days in the tomb. Nobody expecting anything but grief. Martha meets Him on the road: “Lord, if You had been here…” She believes in the resurrection. But she’s thinking future tense. She’s not seeing Who is standing right in front of her.
And this is where the whole thing turns. I wonder if her breath caught when it hit her:
“I am the resurrection and the life.”
Not “I will bring it someday.” But “I am.”
Right now. Standing in front of you.
Mine too, Martha. Mine too.
