Christians look forward to the resurrection of the dead, as promised through Jesus’ own resurrection. What about the resurrection of the living?

Many of us go through life doing the same things, including making the same mistakes, over and over. Someone has observed that a rut is nothing but a coffin with the ends knocked out. Just as there is new life after physical death, so is there new life after stagnation. Lazarus died physically, but we can take his death and rising from death as a metaphor for reawakening to new life after a period of spiritual slumber.