Episode 230: Saved From the Grave
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
They had sent word: “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” Come quickly. And then… they waited.
They watched the road. They listened for footsteps. They checked the door again… and again… But Jesus did not come. And we know this place. Not just when someone dies… but when something in us has come to an end. The relationship that didn’t heal. The future we thought we were moving toward… that never arrived. The prayer we prayed… that didn’t turn out the way we hoped. e know what it is to stand at the tomb… to seal it… and to walk away.
And then—four days later—Jesus shows up. Too late, it seems. Too late to fix it. Too late to change anything.
And yet… he stands at the edge of the grave and says: “Take away the stone.” And we hesitate.
Because we know what’s behind that stone. We know the grief. We know the disappointment. We know the smell of what has died. But at his word… we begin to move it. Slowly. Carefully. Just enough to let a little light in. And then Jesus lifts his voice— not a suggestion… but a command: “Come out.”
And what we thought was finished… what we thought was buried… what we thought was beyond hope… begins to move. Because it is never too late for God.