John 5:1-9-The Healing at the Pool

John 5 beings with Jesus Traveling back from Galilee where he had just performed his second miracle of healing the Official's Son.

He has just arrived in Jerusalem to participate in a feast. It will either be in celebration of Pentecost or when Mose received the Ten Commandments. The people of this town are desperate to believe that God is with them and that he is good. They have been absent of a prophet for many years and are starting to believe God has left them for another people.

In the center of the town was a temple where people went to feel God. They purchased scarifies and waited to feel renewed. In the front of this temple flowed a pool of water that was occasionally st ired by an angle. The first person in the water would instantaneously be healed. Can you imagine. No more cancer, Aids, Depression. Always around feasts God would heal more people then normal, just to prove he was near.

Then a prophet arrives. 38 year diseased man laid close enough to see and feel the mists of the moving waters, but to far to be the first to get in.

Jesus asks, " Do you want to be healed?" The man gives his reasoning as to why his wants don't line up with his circumstances. " Yes but I can't seem to be the first in"

Jesus heals the man. The healed person doesn't thank him. When asked by the Jews who had healed him on the forbidden Sabbath, he has no knowledge of the man to give.

Latter Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

When does Jesus ever put salvation before love?
How often do I put my self-interest before love?

Love is patient and kind.

Crazy weekend :)

Boy Andrew and I had a power packed weekend. The festivities included: a dance lesson swimming, shoping, movie, church, time with friends, time with parents, red-hanks game, and a few naps in between.

Life is fun.