ell, I’m just waiting for a miracle.” How
often have you heard someone say that? How
often have you said it? “If God wanted me to
have a new car He would give it to me? If it’s in
His will for me to have a good job He will make it
happen”. If you’re staring out the window waiting for that shiny new sports car to come tearing up the drive, then you should probably get
comfortable, since my best guess is you’re going
to be sitting there looking down the road for a
long time. By the same token if you are waiting
everyday for someone to knock on the door and
say “Your hired!” you’re probably going to get
mighty hungry before it happens.
You can insert here whatever problem or situation you may be waiting on God to take care of.
You might say, well of course you can’t just pray
up a new car or a new job, but I’m very sick, or
I’m believing in God to pay off my bills, or fix my
children. Any one of a thousand scenarios would
fit, and there are just as many excuses as to why
we are still sitting by the window waiting for God
to take care of it.
So if God wants us to be financially
secure, healthy with happy secure
and healthy children, why is it that
we are still waiting? What exactly
are we waiting on?
John tells of a man in Jerusalem that was very
sick and had been so for thirty eight years. There
was a pool there known as Bethesda. It was
known that in certain seasons an angel of the
Lord would come and stir up the waters. The
first person to step in would be completely cured
of whatever ailment he was afflicted with. The
Lord set up the situation in which the problem
of those around could be “fixed” but there was
a stipulation that must be met in order to get
the miracle the man had spent thirty eight years
waiting for.
He had to be the first in the pool.
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Now Jesus came by the pool one day and saw
the man, knowing he had been there for a long
time, just waiting on the side of the pool, (looking out the window and waiting). He asked the
man, “Do you even wish to be well?” I kinda wonder if Jesus might have been shaking His head
thinking, well, I’ve stirred up the waters over and
over for you and I’ve sent my angels to show the
way to your healing, but you’re still sitting here,
just waiting. What are you waiting for?
The man answered Jesus by saying that he did
indeed want to be healed