Hiding The Stank

Joh 11:17-27
(17) Then coming, Jesus found him already being held in the tomb four days.
(18) And Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off.
(19) And many of the Jews had come to those around Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.
(20) Then when Martha heard that Jesus is coming, she met Him; but Mary was sitting in the house.
(21) Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if You were here, my brother would not be dead.
(22) But even now I know that whatever You may ask God, God will give You.
(23) Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again.
(24) Martha said to Him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.
(25) Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life. The one believing into Me, though he die, he shall live.
(26) And everyone living and believing into Me shall not die to the age, never! Do you believe this?
(27) She said to Him, Yes, Lord, I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.

Great story, the one where Lazarus has died and is in the tomb. Martha, understandably distraught, tells Jesus that IF He had been there then maybe things would have been different. Jesus says this, (as written in the New Stevie Highly Prophetic Hidden Symbolic Version) "You will get over this hurt."

Martha says, (again in the NSHPHSV) "I know that I will 'someday', Lord".

See, we all carry this 'stank' stuff in our lives, whether it be our past baggage, a habit, a stronghold, a weakness... and we roll a stone over it so that nobody sees it, and so that nobody SMELLS it.

I say, "Lord, I know that someday after the resurrection I'll be free of all this."
Jesus says, "You can be free of that today, you know..." (NSHPHSV)

Then He may do something that makes us all uncomfortable. He rolls the stone away, and everyone sees the mess and smells the stink, and then HE FIXES IT.

Bring it out. Let the Master resurrect your life TODAY.