John 11:23-27: in context

Lazarus has died, and his sister Martha meets Jesus on the road with grief and a gentle reproach. Jesus tells her, your brother will rise again. Martha, a believer, answers with correct but distant doctrine: I know he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day. And Jesus makes one of the central statements of the Gospel, pulling the future into the present and himself into the center of it: I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Then the question straight to her: do you believe this? She answers, yes, Lord, I believe you are the Christ, the Son of God.

Watch how Jesus moves Martha from a doctrine to a person. She believes in the resurrection as a thing that will happen someday, at the last day, a comfort held at a distance. Jesus does not correct her theology; he relocates it. I am the resurrection, he says. The resurrection is not primarily an event on a far-off calendar but a person standing in front of her, so the whole question of life beyond death comes down to a relationship with him. And then he asks the question every reader has to answer too: do you believe this? Not do you believe in resurrection as a concept, but do you believe that I am it. Martha's answer does not even repeat his words about rising; she goes straight to him, yes, Lord, I believe you are the Christ, the Son of God. She has understood that trusting the person is the point. Standing beside a grave, with her brother still dead, she confesses him, and the raising of Lazarus minutes later is the sign that his claim is true.

Do I hold resurrection as a distant doctrine for the last day, or can I answer Jesus' actual question, do you believe that he himself is my life, here, now, beside my own griefs?