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In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk…waiting for the moving of the water – John 5:3 (KJV)
When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? – John 5:6 (KJV)
Jesus asks us, too, “Do you want to be made whole, or are you satisfied with just playing church?”
Enough of this waiting around until something happens; let’s cut to the chase, let Jesus make our legs work, and let’s start walking.
-Fritz
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But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. – John 4:14-15 (KJV)
The famous “woman at the well” incident reveals a problem we have in common with her! We keep our focus based on the tasks we have to do, not the gifts he offers.
Jesus tells her of a different kind of water to satisfy a different kind of thirst. He says his “Living” water will satisfy her real thirst and is received for the asking! She can’t stop thinking in terms of doing and asks so she doesn’t have to come to that well any more. A totally different focus.
It is like the Norman Rockwell painting, “Lift Up Thine Eyes”. The Church is proclaiming the Gospel and saying, “Look up!”, but all the people are walking right by looking down.
We, like the people in that painting, are looking down at our next step instead of looking up to the one who makes all steps meaningful.
Jesus, in all my journey let me never be so focused on the path details and absorbed in other mundane thoughts that I loose sight of the Glory of You and the wonders of the trip!
-Fritz
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He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. – John 3:18 (KJV)
There was a TV program called, “Lets Make A Deal”, where contestants were shown numbered doors and told to pick one. Behind one door would be a great prize, behind another a donkey or some silly thing. Of course, the contestant had neither before the choice and would often hesitate, afraid of picking the wrong door.
Many, look at faith that way. They think they have choices, as in more than one. Choosing to believe in Christ would bring one result and choosing not to believe in Christ would bring another, and they wait, thinking that hesitation insulates them from bad (or unpleasant) consequences – Not so!
Jesus’ admonition in John 3:18, is that there is really only one choice because not believing leaves one in the current condemned and fallen state, and that “condemnation” is a life lived in “Darkness” which just never ends.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.. – John 3:19-20 (KJV)
Being in the dark is a lonely place, even in the midst of a crowd; it puts one in proximity of a lot of unsavory creatures, who also live in the dark; and it places one under the “authority” of darkness (Colossians 1:13).
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