A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                       NOT WORTHY OF ATTENTION B PART II 

"I, a widow in Nain, had the most amazing day of my life today.... It did not start off well.... For I had to bury my son, my only son.... And I am a widow with no other male relative to take care of me..... It should have been me that they had to bury today... But it was my son, my only son, who had become ill and had died... And this morning I had to walk behind his coffin... I did not know how I could go on living... But then while we were on our way to the burial place, we were stopped by this Man Jesus... He had come to our town with His disciples.... And He had arrived just as we were on our way to bury my son.... I had heard of Him....I had heard that He healed people and delivered people of demonic spirits.... However, it was too late for my son... My son was not just ill.... My son was dead....So this Man Jesus would not be able to do anything for him.... I did not expect this Man Jesus to stop for me since there was nothing He could do for me...But He did stop..... And He spoke to me.... He told me to stop crying.... Why would He ask me to stop crying?... I looked at Him after He had spoken these words... I wanted to say to Him, "How can You possibly tell me to stop crying?"... "Do you know that I am a widow?".... "And that the body in this coffin is my son, my only son?".... "Who is going to take care of me now?".... But I did not say these things... There was something in His voice that made me listen.".... Please read the typed out attachment when a widow in Nain meets Jesus at the town gate....

                    ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                        NOT WORTHY OF ATTENTION B PART II

As Jesus gets to the entrance of the town, He meets a very sad and wailing crowd. And no wonder, for in the coffin lies the body of a young man. We would expect everyone to be upset about his death for her is too young to have died. Moreover, he is the only son and his mother is a widow. So who will now take care of her since she has already lost her husband and is now about to bury her only son? It surely looks like Jesus has missed it this time. He may well be in the right town but He has arrived at the wrong time. He should have come when the boy was still ill. At least He could have done something for her by making her son well. However, there is no point for Him to be here now, unless He has come to share in the grief of the widow. And it seem that is what He has come to do as you can read in Luke 7:13

When the Lord saw her, His heart went out to her and He said, "Don't cry."

Jesus learns that in the coffin lies the body of a still young man and his mother is a widow. He reaches out to her by telling her not to cry.