A Sick Man

"Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister, Martha."  John 11:1.  These three people were very close friends of Jesus.  As we read through this chapter, we will see that Lazarus dies from his sickness.  The Lord goes down to Bethany and raises Lazarus from the dead.  Those who know Christ, and serve Him as their Lord, get sick.  Sickness afflicts the human family.  Those who are Christians and members of the Lord's church have disease.  Sometimes that disease will cause one to die.  Christians live in a world that is afflicted with many maladies.  Servants of Jesus are not exempt from those maladies.  We must understand as we see the sickness of Lazarus that we too will have illnesses.  We are mortal, and therefore, we are subject to mortal weakness.  But, our weakness and illness is not unto death.  This was true for Lazarus.  The Lord raised up Lazarus after four days in the grave for the glory of God.  Death is a farewell to this world, and a good morning to the next world.  We, as God's chosen, will know sickness in this life, but none in the life to come.