The Divine Delays of Jesus

Excerpt from my book, Disappointed with God

Mar 11, 2025

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Excerpt from my book, Disappointed with God

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“God sometimes hides His face from the world, but His hiddenness
does not mean He is absent.”
Dane Ortland

“When therefore He heard that he was sick,
he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.”
John 11:6

In John 11 we find a story about Jesus full of hard-to-understand details. His friends Mary and Martha sent a message to Him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill” (John 11:3). But though Jesus loved their brother Lazarus, “He stayed two days longer in the place where He was.” Why didn’t Jesus go? And immediately?

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