The disciples could not understand why I did not go to the grave of Lazarus as soon as they found out he was ill. I told them that Lazarus was asleep and that I would go and wake him up. Then I told them plainly that Lazarus was dead.
Sleep is so much like death. When you go to bed, you close your eyes, pull up the covers over most of your body and lay there in your bed until the next morning. When a person dies, his eyes close and later his body is covered. The spirits of those who believe in Me will meet Me the moment they take their last breath.
Later I will awaken the physical bodies of all those who are dead with a trumpet sound when I return to earth. Those who believe in Me will be resurrected with new bodies. You trust Me to keep you breathing every time you go to bed. I give My beloved sleep, so never fear death.
JOHN 11:11-14; PSALM 127:2
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