Living Water: Lazarus, Come Out!

Chapter Seven of Living Water by Brother Yun: Lazarus, Come Out!

Interesting in that Brother Yun draws the two stories of Mary and Martha together. He points out that in the West He has come across three types of people in the church.

The first is like Martha: busy serving others. They do lots of good things but mostly they are done for the sake of doing those things. As a result they miss Jesus in their midst.

The second is like Mary: sitting at the feet of Jesus.

The third is like Lazarus: dead. Spiritually dead for three or four days. Yet the parables show that Christ can bring the cold dead back to life. What hope there is for the churches of today where there is little or no apparent life or joy!

The Western church is generally like Martha: "You know the truths about God's Word in your head, but you still like to run your own lives." What a condemnation!

But even more: "So many churches and individual believers think they should make their own plans and strategies, then ask God to bless them."

I know that I and my church have been guilty of this recently.

And this is so contrary with what God wants us to do. He wants us to approach Him first and listen to what He has to say instead of arrogantly assuming that He will bless what we want to do because we want to do it.

"All that matters is that Jesus loves you and He wants to be your best friend."