Verse 36, Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
The human heart is so deceptive, that it is so hard to distinguish between genuine and true love or fake care and real care. And many people can prophesize that I love you and can blow the trumpet many times of how much they love a person. But their deeds or action will show otherwise and people who are outside can easily distinguish between when a love shown in care is true or fake. Hence they always say a person can declare how much he or she loves a person and is normal when people do that because everyone wants to claim glory and goodness for themselves. But an unbiased third party witness testimony always proofs to show and proof more of integrity than the person testifying about himself or herself. Because everyone will claim good for themselves but a third party who has nothing to loose when they declare or say something about a person holds more validity then the actual person testimony. That is why in court proceedings they always consider third party witness than only the witness of the individual.
As this fact is laid out when we consider the verse 36, the Jews where not Christ friends and only have heard about His miracles and as such have nothing to gain. And not only that, but who most did not even believe in Christ. Hence will expert them to say nothing good about Christ. Even they could not deny the genuine love Christ had for Lazarus the individual that has died. And as they assess Christ and all His behaviors and actions, they came to a conclusion that Christ did not only loved Lazarus, but He truly loved Him indeed and so much and that His love was truly deep.
The lesson here is most believers when they encounter hardships and the trials of life in any form or shape become to feel lonely and begins to entertain the notion that God does not love them. If God did why will He allowed them to go through what they are going through. A prime example of individual who have been betrayed by their own Christian brothers or even in a spousal relationship when initially before entering the relationship they committed everything to God. And if God knew this was how it was going to turn out why did He allowed them to go in the relationship the first time. This is not the only example; some suffering believers always deliberate on the genuine of God's love in times of sickness asking the question if God truly loves them, why did God allow this sickness to come on me and why has He still not healed me. And these are many more can create a sense of abandonment by God and feeling of not loved.
It was the same, here the people were contemplating why will the Lord allow His friend to died and the pain that this death has generated across tells that the Lord does not care for them. But as much as this could have been the initial stand of thought of the people gathered at the dead man house. They could also not deny the fact that truly Jesus Christ, the Lord truly loved Lazarus and as such care. And this came from a third party source and also people who were already biased and did not believe in Christ so you will not expect them to say anything kind about Christ. But the fruits of care displayed by Christ was such real and authentic that they could not hide the truth but confess that Christ loved Lazarus and still care about Lazarus, and everyone present.
In the same way Christ, loves everyone that have believe in Him, at times it might seemed that He does not love the believer, which is what our mind wants us to believe and equally the world or even the enemy wants us to believe. But the believer has to diffuse and disregard that notion and realize in the midst of their difficulties Christ still loves them dearly and also in a deeper, incomprehensible way. So the believer should learn with troubles or without troubles learn to rest in the undeniable love of Christ as confirmed through these scriptures.
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