Like many people, I have often wished that there was more in the Bible about what Lazarus did or felt or said. He is this absolutely pivotal figure in the narrative—man raised from the dead after 4 days!

Yet he is silent. He does not have a speaking part.

We don’t know his age or his jobs or his reaction to resurrection, and there is a reason for this—

We are all Lazarus.

Each of us is the one whose redemption and resurrection become the direct catalyst for the Cross.

Each of us is “the helpless dead” until Jesus walks in.

Not a moment too soon or too late, despite what the appearances, the grief, and the conditions of the sepulcher might say otherwise.