Lazarus is four days dead when Jesus finally arrives, and Martha meets Him with faith and heartbreak tangled together: Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

His answer to her is His answer to every graveside since: I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die. Then the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. Bring your griefs; He honors them.

Jesus deliberately arrived late, let the grief become undeniable, and then stood at the tomb and wept real tears before working the miracle. He does not shame Martha's if-only or hurry Mary's sorrow; He joins it, and then He out-argues it with a shout that four days of death could not resist.

I am the resurrection and the life is present tense, not merely a last-day doctrine but a Person standing in your losses now. Saul, refusing God, ended up knocking on death's door for answers; Martha, holding on through disappointment, heard death take orders. Bring Him your four-day situations, the ones past fixing. He specializes in those.