"do you believe this?"

Lazarus' tomb in Bethany

"I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

So Jesus asked Mary and Martha when their brother Lazarus died. They answered yes, but their eyes probably  betrayed a distressed question like "what good is that now?" As our Lenten meditation this day let's allow Jesus to ask us the same question "Do you believe this?" But let's do the hard work ourselves of asking and answering the question "what good is that now?" Because it is really good now! As Lent has brought us to sadness and hopelessness, so it leads us to the cross and empty grave where Jesus declares "I am the resurrection and the life!" That changes everything - now and forever. Does it?