Your room is your inner circle; the people in your life who will make the decisions for you when (or at anytime) you can’t make them yourself. There comes a time when you cannot carry yourself but must be carried by others. In such times, those in your room determine where you would be carried to.
Text
[John 11:34,39,43-44 KJV] “And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. [39] Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. [43] And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. [44] And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go”.
Reference
John 11:1—44
2 Kings 4:11—37
Discussion
When Lazarus died, those in his room went to bury him, but when the son of the Shunemite woman died, she put him on the prophet‘s bed and went to fetch the prophet.
The prophet was the friend of the Shunemite, and Jesus was the friend of Martha and Mary. The prophet was powerful, and Jesus Christ is the power of God. The difference in how these narratives turned out is the presence of the prophet in the life of the woman of Shunem and the Lord Jesus in the lives of Mary and Martha. Who is in your room?
Who ever remains in the room with you when the lights are low matters. The people who will be allowed into your room when you can’t help yourself matters a lot. We must all connect with the right kinds of people if we want to escape the pitfall and drama of fake friends and family. Lazarus was blessed to have the right kind of people surrounding him even in the grave.
I pray that God will help us with wisdom to connect to the right people. I pray that you will not make a mistake to surround yourself with fake people. May the Lord appoint unto you genuine and real family that cares about you.
I love you; stay blessed!
Noah Simpe Bediako
