What do we do when we are stuck in the waiting, when the answer has not come and the silence feels deafening? In this message drawn from John chapter 11, we are invited into one of the most profound and personal moments in all of scripture -- the death and raising of Lazarus. At the heart of this story is a truth that cuts right through our anxiety and our impatience: God is not absent in our delays. When Jesus deliberately stayed where he was for two days after hearing that his dear friend was dying, it was not indifference. John makes a point of telling us that Jesus loved Mary, Martha, and Lazarus -- and then immediately tells us he waited. That tension is intentional. It confronts our assumption that love always moves quickly, that care always looks like immediate action. Instead, we are shown that God sometimes waits not in spite of his love for us, but because of it. He is working something deeper than what we can see. The raising of Lazarus stands as the climactic sign in John's gospel, a moment that pulls back the curtain on who Jesus truly is -- Lord over death itself. And it calls every one of us to the same question Martha was asked face to face: Do you believe this? That question is not just historical. It is alive and pressing for us today, in whatever circumstance we are carrying into this moment.