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This is going to be a place where I process my Bible reading. |
| Welcome to my Bible reading journey. I find that I process information better when I write/respond to it. This blog is simply a place where I can write down my thoughts about God's word. If you are reading I hope you get something out of it. Feel free to comment your take on the verses. Enjoy! |
| Today's verses come from John 5:1-15 These verses find Jesus performing another healing. Jesus was in Jerusalem near a pool called Bethesda. This was special pool because an angel would come and trouble the water during a certain season. Whoever entered into the pool after the angel would have any illness healed. Therefore sick people could often be found here. On this day a man who had been dealing with an illness for 38 years was near the pool. Jesus asks him if he wants to be whole? The man said he couldn't because he didn't have anyone to take him to the pool. Everytime he tried by himself, someone else would rush in. Jesus told get up, take his bed, and walk. The man was able to immediately do this. Now Jesus performed this on the sabbath. When the Jews heard of this they wanted to know how this happened because it was against the law to do work on the sabbath. However when questioned the man didn't know who healed him. Jesus had made himself scarce. Later once everything settled down, Jesus appeared to the man at the temple and told him he was healed and to sin no more. After that the man was able to tell people that Jesus healed him. One thing that sticks out to me in these verses is the fact that Jesus asks the man does he want to get better. This might seem like a silly question. I mean the man was at the pool to be healed. Who would not want to be healed. But I think this is a super important question that we should all ask ourselves. How many times do we pray to God for healing, help, escape, etc, but then we don't do the follow through? Sometimes I wonder if we aren't just speaking lip service. I know I"m supposed to do better, be better so I'm going to ask God for help, but when it comes down to it we aren't will to follow through with the necessary actions. Jesus didn't help the man up. He told him to get his own self up. Now we have to understand the man couldn't have just gotten up by himself, he was invalid for 38 years. Jesus is the one who did the healing, but the man had to heed his words. What would have happened if the man refused to get up? Would he have still been healed. I'm not sure. But Jesus is offering the same thing today. He is offering to heal us from the consequences of sin. He died so that we would have a way to make it to heaven. But the thing is we aren't just going to automatically go. We have to want to be healed first. Then we have to take up our bed and go (actively accept God's precious gift). |
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