When Jesus raised Lazarus, he instructed the crowd to “Loose him, and let him go.” To many, this meant to unwrap his burial cloth and let him put normal clothes on. But Jesus’ words always had a spiritual instruction. He was always teaching the science that was the basis of his healing.
He was really telling the crowd to free Lazarus from the false, limited, mortal beliefs they held about him. “Let him go…” Let him be what God made, rather than trying to hold him in some preconceived belief as to who and what he was. One of the most difficult things for a parent is to let our children go. And yet, it is essential that we do just that, – to not hold any preconceived plan for them, or some limited, mortal view as to who and what they are, but, rather give them the best understanding we have of our relationship with God, and to let them find theirs.
Before Jesus raised Lazarus, he wept. They thought he was weeping because Lazarus had died. But that was not the case. He was weeping because the people around him did not get the science. Their hearts were hardened so that they did not get the essential points Jesus was trying to get them to see. In S&H, Mrs. Eddy writes, “Jesus restored Lazarus by the understanding that Lazarus had never died, not by an admission that his body had died and then lived again. Had Jesus believed that Lazarus had lived or died in his body, the Master would have stood on the same plane of belief as those who buried the body, and he could not have resuscitated it.
It’s good to ask, is there anyone I am holding in a limited mortal belief? Then I must “loose him, and let him go.”