Even the tragedy of death, God turns to joy, when God's glory is shown to us! When Lazarus was sick, the Lord Jesus tells His disciples that it is all so that Christ the Son of God might be glorified! Christ teaches us that, what is to lost men pointless and unredeemable is, to those who trust in Christ, meant to manifest the glory of Christ to us! Christ deliberately tarries until Lazarus has died, because God had ordained Lazarus to die from his illness. Jesus knew all that, and He intended things to develop as they did, so that we might see His glory in the conquering of death for His loved ones. We ought to take great comfort when death comes to us or our loved ones, knowing that each discrete step along the way was planned by God, to accomplish His good purposes for us, and to reveal His glory to us! Martha told the Savior, "Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother Lazarus had not died!" But God's will and purpose was to demonstrate in Lazarus' death what Christ next tells Martha: "I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live! Whoever believes in me shall never die." Can we believe that? Do we believe it? We must trust in Jesus in every discrete step of the way in tragedy, and not question, why didn't God do this instead of that? If Christ had followed Martha's wishes, and healed Lazarus before he died, we would be less sure of His power over death! Thus, tragedies train us to trust in God, and God uses our tragedies to train others to trust in God.