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When God goes to a Funeral

It is not only a suggestive but real title.

“When God goes to a funeral” it is the suggestive title of one of the chapters of one of the most recent books of the teacher Michael Horton. There seems brilliant to me his analysis of Jesus's appearanc e before the grave of his friendly Lazarus. The scene could not be more touching. Many friends of the family had come to console his sisters. Four days later Jesus appeared in the funeral scene. Maria went out to his meeting and between tears he was sorry: "Gentleman, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. More also I know now that everything for what you ask God, God will give it to you.” With these words Maria was framing with gold his faith in Christ. And very well Horton interprets it when he says: "It is important to see how here Marten reflects this combination of disappointment that there squeeze the heart and the faith that we find in the Psalms. He  does not believe that not even the death has the last word in Jesus's presence.”

But what more attracts attention of me was the moment in which Jesus was opposite to the grave of his friendly Lazarus. “Already disordered emotionally by Maria's crying to his feet... There we read those two words that deserve their own versículo: "Jesus cried.” Then, the people reacted upset: "Look at all that wanted it! Here they seem to shock the cold stoicism of those who try to contain the tears to any cost, and under any rationalist subterfuge, and the realistic transparence of Jesus.  

Today there are those who celebrate the death with poetical and perfumed words. And this way they try to minimize the heartbreaking pain that must always produce the death, especially of a dear being. But, Jesus, the God's Son, cried. And the fact is that the death is never either an award, or an achievement, or an exploit.  The death is not another thing than the pay of the sin. And he must make us reflect with more felt and less triteness. Especially, when it is the surest thing and simultaneously the most unpredictable thing that happens to all the human beings.  

The eternal life was the goal of the creation at first, while the death is the curse for the human sin. The death is a part of the fall imposed on the humanity like result of the disobedience, not an inevitable circumstance to win. The deceased is standing up against God, against the world, against the life, against the hope, against the possibilities.”  

The only good news that we can proclaim before the reality of the death is that it was conquered by Christ with his death and resurrection. And that, although it is still in foot like the last enemy who will be conquered in the Christian experience the day of the resurrection, for the time being we can say that, only for whom Christ now is the life, dying is a profit. Because it is not another thing than to be absent to the body and presents to Mister Pero, only in the day of the resurrection we it will be in body and soul.