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One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw Him and knew he had been ill for a long time, He asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
“I can’t sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me inside the pool when the water bubbles up.” —John 5:5-7
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Jesus inquires of this man if he would like to get better. His answer: I can’t. Because the “special water” in the pool is out of his reach. The Savior of the world asks if this man desires healing through supernatural means and he responds in the negative, for he attributes deliverance to worldly initiatives and not to worshipful interventions.
The dilemma of striving to thrive: we react to the divine in the directive of the flesh and therefore, resist the hand of God to move mountains in our mess.
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Where our eyes focus.
When our eyes are attentive to the flesh, we answer out from the flesh. Jesus is standing in front of him, yet all he envisions is the pool water and this is what he endeavors after. The man is more engrossed in what his eyes can see that what his heart can believe. Our reach is limited when we are fixated on the temporal instead of the eternal. We cannot get to the mountain if we cannot get pass the valley. Dwelling in the valley destroys our determination to venture to the unknown, deepens our dependence on the familiar, and decreases our faith to follow God up the mountain.
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What our heart misses.
Jesus offers a once in a lifetime offer and this man’s heart completely misses it. We’ve been there before. God opens a mighty door to shepherd us through and we mistakenly decline. Thirty-eighty years of not being able to walk and crawling in the dust. Jesus extends him a miracle and the man settles for pool water.
In introspection, is God moving mountains in your life that you are resisting? He desires to give you more and you take the less. A relationship, better, and you are settling. A result, better, and you are settling. A restoration, better, and you are settling. A range of decisions, better, and you are settling.
Our Jesus, thankfully, doesn’t accept our unsettling answers. Settle for the inferior? No way, not on My watch. “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” (John 5:8)
Jesus turns the man’s incurable into a miracle. He enables him who could not walk, to walk. He can make the impossible, possible. The ordinary, extraordinary. The immovable, moveable. But not only does Jesus deal in the physical, he can also bring salvation and sanctification from spiritual paralysis. He can move mountains in your life if you let Him into your life.
Don’t settle for pool water when you can have perfection. God loves you too much to let you pursue the lesser choices in your life. Stand up, give Him your life, and walk up to the mountain of God. What Jesus is preparing to give you is better than what you wanted in the flesh.
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