Can we hear Christ speak to us?

Now when Jesus came, he found that Laz'arus had already been in the tomb four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary sat in the house. Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. And even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you." Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"  John11:17-26 Read the whole story to verse 44

Our I AM, like Lazarus, is as good as dead, hidden in the cave of our body, veiled by our lack of consciousness. Martha and Mary believe that Lazarus is dead, and that too much time has elapsed for him to be revived, even by the Teacher.
It is interesting that Jesus is referred to as the Teacher. The last reflection spoke of knowledge as the tool to make us conscious. Knowledge is I AM food and love is I AM substance. Such tenderness and love is expressed in those words “Jesus wept.” Rudolf Steiner says that it was not for sorrow but for joy that Jesus wept. He wept for joy that the god in Lazarus may be manifest, that the I AM in him may be revealed.
So we work at becoming more and more conscious. We can do this in many, many ways. There is no one way for everyone, there are many paths up the mountain. And thank God for that, if we were all on one path it would be pretty crowded. Wherever the path, and wherever we are on it, we have a companion. Christ is there where we are. We don’t have to be somewhere out ‘there’ where he is said to be. “I am with you always,” he said at the end of St Matthew’s Gospel, “to the close of the age.”
Mary and Martha said "Lord, if you had been here,” – they didn’t realise the new way Christ is with us now.Now we can see Christ standing before us, speaking personally to us the words so wonderfully preserved in the Bible. “I am with you”, “Peace be with you.” “Let not your hearts be troubled, neither be afraid.” They are his words and he is speaking them personally to us. We can experience an inner quickening when we hear the words in our Imagination. We can feel a sense of being able to handle anything knowing that Christ is “always with you”. The more we make this a reality in our lives the easier it will be to call them to mind when we most need them.
As we live in our tomb, that is, our body, we must become more and more aware that Christ is always on his way to the tomb. He doesn’t rush, four days Lazarus has been dead, so this is the fifth day, the fifth epoch in which we now live. Christ is on his way to raise us up, to revive us. Can we hear him say those words to us? “Laz’arus, come out.”
Can we hear him calling to our I AM? It says, “he cried with a loud voice”. This is not the still small voice but a loud voice. The voice is not just calling, it says “he cried”. We can use our Imagination to hear this voice. Our I AM is entombed and in bondage until we hear it.
The facts are these: we are in this world, we are dead and we are in the tomb of our physical body. We live in a society constructed of dead, material concepts. Therefore society is also a tomb. The whole earth is a tomb too; it is the body of Christ and he is entombed in it waiting for each person to enable his resurrection. Therefore, the more of us that recognise his presence, the more he can enliven the etheric of this world.
Then more and more people will hear him say, “come out!” Then we read. “The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’”
If his hands and feet were bound he must have floated out. Jesus didn’t say to people, “Go in and carry him out.” He cried directly to a dead man whose hands and feet are tied up and whose face is wrapped in a cloth, “Come out.” We can look at Lazarus in our imagination, constrained like that, and see that his body is actually shaped like the letter “I”.
Jesus would not have asked people to help him for the I AM is about freedom. The person who is expressing their I AM doesn’t depend on other people. Even though constrained, the I AM can only act in freedom.
These are the thoughts what set us free from the tomb and help us to unbind ourselves. We don’t need to strain against the things that bind us; we just need to hear the voice of Christ saying. “Peace be with you”. We don’t need to cower in the tomb; we just need to hear the voice of Christ crying. “Come out.”
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25