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Chapter 22 |
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No harm came from the interruption and the delay. True, the child had died before Jesus reached the ruler’s home. It seemed, indeed, that Jesus had lingered too long on the way. If only He had not stopped to talk with the woman in the crowd! Now it was too late for Him to come. “Trouble not the Master,” the servants said; “thy daughter is dead.” Jesus heard what the messengers said, and comforted Jairus by saying to him, “Be not afraid, only believe.” Jesus had made no mistake. He never makes a mistake — He never comes too late.
Jesus went on with Jairus and soon gave back the child to her parents alive. Some, whose little ones are dead, as they read this pat of the story, may say: “If only Jesus had restored our child after it had died! But He did not.” He did not literally restore your dead, yet He comforted you in a way which wonderfully sustained you. Since Christ has died and risen again, dying in Christ means only passing into fuller, richer life. Your child is not dead. You see her not, but she never lived in this world so really as she does now. You have the comfort of knowing also that in the hands of Christ all is well. Then you have the assurance of meeting her again by and by.
Christ has a heart of sympathy and love which will lead Him to take a tender interest in every need or sorrow of ours, and to help us in the best way. Our need is our strongest claim on Him. When the freed slave Sojourner Truth was in great distress over her child, which had been stolen from her and sold, she offered this prayer: “O Lord, if I was rich as You be, and You was as poor as I be, I’d help You — You know I would. And O, do help me. And I felt sure that He would, and He did,” continued the poor woman.
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