Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 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. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie-- the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 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?" "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." Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
Sometimes in my life I am just loafing around in my sorrow. I think that nobody is there for me and that there is nothing that I can do. But this isn't the case. Jesus is always there for me. We just have to have enough faith to stand up and walk. Jesus calls each of us to do things that we don't know how to do. But He knows that if we just trust him and have faith, all things are possible. It's an awesome feeling. When we are doing what God wants us to do, everything just seems to go much better. We don't sweat the small stuff, but instead we look ahead to what is better. It's awesome. So the next time you are stuck somewhere, pick up your mat and walk. Trust that God will lead you where you need to be.
Brian
(poop is respectable)
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I love how things just fall into place so smoothly when we do what God wants us to do, rather than what we want to do! It truly is amazing and I wonder why we don't do it more often, even though we know what will happen when we do...
ps. poop is not respectable
So true! I wonder that every day. It just seems so hard at the time to do things His way! I don't know why that is or how that can be, but I do know that we are imperfect except through Jesus' sacrifice. Even though I am imperfect, God is greater! He has wiped my sins away. Greg brought up the idea tonight that the more we become Christ-like, the more we see how much we sin, and the more we despise what we do. It's a really interesting idea because you would think that we would become more like Christ, but when we do that it exposes so much more of our sin. It's amazing!
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