We are children of eternity, children of life

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: This passage from the Bible raises the question of what death and life mean through the lens of Jesus Christ. For believers, there is no real death, only a temporary transition to a perfect and eternal life. Jesus refers to Lazarus' death as a light sleep, and through his resurrection, Lazarus entered into the plan of salvation made possible by Christ. Death has been absorbed by the victory of Jesus on the cross, and believers are children of eternity who rest easy in the knowledge of a perfect and beautiful dream before the presence of the Lord.

The question this passage raises for us is: what is death and what is life when we look at it through the lens of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ? This passage encourages me to think that for the children of God there is no death after all. For the children of God if we die in Him what we have rather is a temporary dream, light, superficial and not the resounding, unappealable character that the dead has for those who do not have the Lord in their lives.

For Lazarus, who is in the Lord's plans, is under the benevolent and powerful gaze of the Lord, that death is purely a light sleep. And that is why the Lord speaks in terms that "our friend Lazarus sleeps. But the disciples do not understand the symbolic and profound language of Jesus Christ and they say: ah well if he is sleeping well how good, surely the miracle will be easy then, Surely he is going to heal because he is sleeping, he is resting, right? It seems good for him because he is sleeping, he is resting.