The removal of the stone and the burial and displacement of hope
What the hopes and aspirations you have had that filled you with zeal in anticipation of thier fulfillment? How has time, circumstances and decisions that follow eroded those hopes and aspirations including a life that is rich with meaing and fullfilment with your family, friends and others and with God? Have you done what many others have; to let them erode and deteriorate to the point that they die? Have you buried and displaced them because when you ask for God, he did not turn up when you requested? Did you as a result bury them to believe that the only time they can be ressurected is at some distant time in the future? What about he that became the embodiment of God that declares that he is the ressurection and the life? Are you able to show to him where those hopes and aspirations are buried? Can you roll away the stone and to give him access to command life into those hopes? What about your children and friends coming to God? What about a different spiritual dimension into a marriage? This message is based on the resurrection of Lazarus an its applicability to us today that the lord of the ressurection whats to briing life into those things that you thought was dead for far too long.