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Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. 
So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was. Then after that, he said to the disciples, 
"Let's go to Judea again."
"Rabbi," the disciples told him, "just now the Jews tried to stone you, and you're going there again?"
John 11:5-8 CSB
Suddenly Jesus wants to go back to Judea and the disciples don't get it. "We've all just left there, and we left because people were about to kill you!
And we walked!"
In there humanity none of this made sense, they didn't get it, and they let Jesus know.
Jesus loves Martha, Mary & Lazarus.
What Jesus does, or doesn't do, is not easy to fathom for those closest to him.
There's a bigger story here. 
Just as the disciples are limited people, so am I. I don't get God's action, and I really don't get His inaction.
And its OK to let Jesus know that.
In our story, Jesus loves us. 
He does, or doesn't do, things we don't understand. 
It's OK to let Him know that.
There's a bigger story that we're part of. 
We have a benefit over the disciples of having seen more of that bigger story played out, God's heart revealed in the rest of the New Testament and in the lives of his people. 
No matter what, Jesus loves us. 
Loves you.
When we don't get what God is doing or not doing, it's OK to let Him know.
We are part of a Bigger Story. 
#sunday
#worship
#thisisourGod

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