Unbind Him

John 11:43-44 (ESV)

43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” 44 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

Jesus calls us by name from death to life. We are reborn from above, but we are still wrapped in varying degrees with the grave clothes of our former ways and the desires of our mortal flesh. We are unbound as we grow in His word through our efforts and from those around us in the body of Christ. In the unity of the Holy Spirit, we are unbound over time into the maturity of Christ. With joy we have entered the fellowship of life with God and with those who belong to the body of Christ.