Resurrection and the Life

At the Young Adult worship/sermon series meeting, Steve is covering the "I Am" statements. He covered I AM the Resurrection and the Life in three segments. The second covered John 11:17-37. (the following taken from my notes)
The passage covers the death of Lazarus and his sisters, Mary and Martha, interacting with Jesus at the funeral. Mary had previously sat at Jesus' feet and washed them with her hair. It takes her longer to come to Jesus with her grief. She stays at the house while Martha runs to Jesus before he gets into town.
In our minds, faithfulness to God means we're protected from certain trials. Martha is crushed and angry demanding to know why He did not save her brother. Neither sister has a full understanding of who Jesus is. At this point, Jesus has not raised anyone from the dead. They've never seen Him act under these circumstances. Bad circumstances do not change how God feels about us. Either God loves us and He is doing whats best for us or He wasn't paying attention.
What happens to your heart when you face difficulty? Do I first try to think of how I could have/can change it? (sin) Do I put my heart, life and trust in God's hands? Where I go in times of trouble shows what I worship.
In John 11:23, Jesus tells Martha that her brother will rise again. Martha has her theology down. She knows about the Messiah but she doesn't understand how this relates to her present suffering. We all have this question. Jesus doesn't draw Martha's hope to the proper understanding of theology. He's taking Lazarus' sisters to a place where their theology is practical not just intellectual. Jesus puts Martha's focus on "I AM"; not on a body of knowledge but on a person; not on her crushed expectations, heartache and frustration but on Jesus Himself.
Martha's beliefs don't penetrate to her life in the here and now. God will bring us to places in our walk with Him where we don't understand to bring us face to face with Jesus Himself and wrestle with Him. Mary didn't face Jesus until Martha came to tell her the Teacher wanted to see her. It took her longer to come to Jesus.
As He asked Mary and Martha, Jesus asks us: "Do you trust me"? "Do you believe"?
How does the reality of my faith get into the nitty gritty of my life?
We're forced to get personal with Jesus as He pulls us out of our complacency. Faithfully and gently, He leads us out past our understanding to places where we have no frame of reference, where we don't know how He works. He's making us trust Him. Sooner or later, in the situation you're in, you'll have to deal with Jesus. Don't pout and say He didn't give you what you deserved. What God has done in the past is a model and a promise for what He'll do in the future but He's too creative to do the same thing twice.
Vs 31, 33 The context of "weep" here as Jesus wept was that of a horse snorting; likely deeply troubled over the lack of belief. They couldn't see things through Jesus' eyes and did not understand God's plan. The Sovereignty of God is never counteracted by and does not discount His empathy. Jesus weeps with them. Though Jesus does not grieve without hope, He's empathetic. Jesus is in the hurt, anxiety, heartbreak with us. Is 53 A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. God is not in Heaven, arms folded, waiting for us to "get it". He's connected, loving, gentle with those He loves.
God leads us to places we don't understand, where we're angry thinking He didn't show up to glorify Him and deepen our walk.