A metaphor of sorts

“When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her.” Luke 7:13

“The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.” Luke 7:15

The story of the raising of the widow’s son is brief and might only have one point. Jesus is God in the flesh and Jesus once again shows that God is a God of compassion. The Old Testament folks knew this…

You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Psalm 86:15

…but with Jesus they see the compassion of God and they hear it in His voice. Wow!

It would have been good to have been there. To stop and think about what we had just witnessed. To play it and replay it in our mind, over and over again. A dead man, raised back to life, given back to his mother.

It’s a metaphor of sorts. Every Christian was dead once. Every Christian has been raised back to life. Every Christian has been given back to his Father.

(To see these three things in Scripture read Ephesians 2:1-5, John 3:1-8, & Romans 8:15.)