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Sometimes it is in the most desperate of times that God shows up. I've heard of or read about many situations in which God has acted only when the situation was hopeless. There are stories of persecuted Christians in other parts of the world who were practically on their way to their execution when God granted them a means of escape. I recently read of a Chinese Christian who was in prison for his faith, and God miraculously brought about his escape from captivity by helping him literally jump over a prison wall. Many people have been a few breaths away from death, and God would suddenly heal their bodies.
There's something about a last-minute intervention that grabs people's attention. In this account, here is a widow whose son was dead, stone cold dead! This had gone from a harrowing situation to an impossible one! Yet it was at this time that Jesus decided to show up and intervene, raising the woman's son from death. No wonder that "this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country" (v. 17).
There's something about a last-minute intervention that grabs people's attention. In this account, here is a widow whose son was dead, stone cold dead! This had gone from a harrowing situation to an impossible one! Yet it was at this time that Jesus decided to show up and intervene, raising the woman's son from death. No wonder that "this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country" (v. 17).
