No Use

"While he was still speaking to her, a messenger arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. He told him, 'Your daughter is dead. There's no use troubling the teacher now.' But when Jesus had heard what had happened, he said to Jairus, 'Don't be afraid. Just have faith, and she will be healed.'" Luke 8:49-50
 
It was a riveting scene in the movie Breakthrough. A teenage boy, John Smith, was underwater for 15 minutes after falling through the ice. After an unlikely rescue, he was rushed to the emergency room where he was declared dead for 45 minutes...until his mother showed up. She went over to his corpse and began to pray over him. Every medical team member watching had that "it's no use" look on their face. Her tearful, passionate cries to God for his life to return was interrupted only by the beep that returned to the still attached heart monitor.
 
Surely Jairus' knees buckled when word of his daughter's passing reached him. I would have collapsed into a heap if I were him. It was at that moment Jesus locked eyes with him. He spoke courage and strength into the man. He managed to make the trip home buoyed only by the one he had in desperation pleaded with for his daughter's life. Weeping turned into mocking laughter as Jesus told the crowd she was only sleeping. With a touch and a word, the girl rose.  
 
I don't know...to answer your question. We all have it. We can't help it. Why them and not (fill in the blank)? Would John have revived without his mother's cries? Would Jairus' daughter have stood up again if he had not sought out Jesus? Same answer. The mysteries surrounding the eternal piercing the temporary will remain for you and me. As will, however, the truth that crying out to Jesus is never in the category of being of "no use." Our faith inspires the cry. His will determines the outcome. Is Jesus hearing your voice today? 

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