2. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
3. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
5. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7. “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
8. Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9. At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
History above tells us about the many ways in which God deals with us. Here Jesus teaches with the miracle that all power belongs to God. It is not about a set of rules or connection, God can bypass all our positioning, rules, and connections to favor you.
In verse 2 to 5 of John Chapter 5, we are told the background of this man. And not only that we are also made to be aware of his disability, despite the fact that he was at a place of mercy (Bethesda) and also surrounded by grace ( surrounded by five covered colonnades ).
He was also strategically positioned, for he was in a place where healing always take place.
When the master came by and asked him ( “Do you want to get well?” ) i for one thought He was been insensitive for a man that has spent such amount of years in that position, he was also at a place where people go for healing. But i have come to understand that people can not be forced to accept anything.
I have come across people that though are married do not want to have kids, some are comfortable with just relationship but do not want to commit to a marriage.
And the man in question replied, not maybe he wanted to be healed, but instead gave all the excuses that he can give. Some will tell you that they want a job but it must be in a certain industry, they want a guy but he must be taking home so and so digits. But for some that really want to move on, God can bypass your limitations and give you your heart desire.
One would have expected Jesus, according to the excuses given to help him into the water, or stop other people from not allowing him to get in to the water at the right time. But Jesus just spoke to him ( “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” ) and the story changed.
The world we are living in right now can not be changed, we can only bypass it, you can not change the wrong in economy, media, society, and external forces, you can only ask God to help you bypass them.
As a trained audio engineer, if effects are inserted to a file to make it sound in a particular way, all you need to do to hear the original sound is to look for the bypass button and activate it.
No matter the effects that life has passed through you, activate God's bypass button today.
God bless you.
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