Draw Me Near by Jill Carattini

Take about 5 minutes to read this snippets version of The previous day's 'A Slice of Infinity'. Follow up by reading TODAY'S SLICE and forward any comments on your faith journey.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; (John 11:25)

Who, being in very nature^[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature^[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:6-8)

A Slice of Infinity Snippets:
In The Problem with Pain, C.S. Lewis refers to pain as God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Convincingly, he explains what we know to be true of suffering, pain, and evil, what we know of the meaning offered in Christ's suffering and the strength we are given to bear it when the peripheral questions of life are answered by a good God. Years later, in the pages of A Grief Observed, Lewis describes watching his wife lose her battle with cancer and wrestling with God through the pain. He is then writing as a man who bitterly, tortuously, and intimately knows what he knows to be true of God and evil, suffering and Christ though his soul is breaking. Writes Lewis, "Your bid for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity, will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high." He continues, "Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me--out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

Comments:
Have you ever wondered what someone might do to scare Lazarus after Jesus raised him? I.E. "Hey Lazarus, you better do this or I'm going to kill you."



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