THE SWIMMING POOL! 🏊

You have heard of the story of the man who got his healing by the pool, but not in the pool of Bethsaida?

There are so many lessons to learn from this and we will examine them in points.

1) The stirring

The stirring of the water was also called the troubling of the water. I wondered how it was discovered that an angel troubled the water, because in this age and time, I dare say we would have seen it as a place to be avoided. Not all stirrings are for a terrible cause...Not all troubles birth disasters.

  Only a man who discerns in his spirit would be able to tell the difference between a foreboding and a "troubling of the water".

2) The Rush

According to the passage...Everyone rushes forward once there was a stirring, but that stirring was meant for just one person. 

This relates to how you can share a burden with someone, but God still didn't hand over the assignment to you. Yes, you know something has to be done, and you rush headlong into it. You will find that you entered the pool, but no impact was made. The chosen one will be healed. Not you.

3) The miracle

I can imagine that nearly everyone by the pool witnesses this miracle, but cannot explain the source. They watch a man become a different complete version of himself. When God wants to move in your life, don't seek to rationalize his move. His ways are beyond that.

4) The Chosen

The one person who is healed, who steps ahead of others, was it because he was smarter? calculating and strategic? I doubt that really. You have to be helped by God to access heights that seem impossible to reach in your life. The chosen won't depend on their own strength and wisdom or power.

5) The wasted time

Have you ever thought about the people who grew old by the pool? None of them receiving their healing. Would they have been better off at their homes? I don't know, neither do I have answers, but I do know one thing. If you are by a pool that you shouldn't be, God will tell you to get out of there.

6) The losers

Those who were never on time, lost a great opportunity and they knew it. How bitter did they become? Did they let it get it stop them from trying again? Did they become entitled to the opportunity? This are questions we should ask ourselves when we don't get what we hoped to have.

7) The man Jesus healed has to be by that pool, but not healed by the pool.

This man, remained by the poolside even when others gave up. The lesson however was that he had to remain by the poolside to receive his miracle, but not from the troubled pool. God works in more ways than one, and this man found another way. What if he had left the side of the pool? Would he have met Jesus? 

The lesson here is this. Sometimes, we already have ideas of how things would go. God can only use so...so person. That kind of mindset closes doors of blessings to you. 

Jesus was the last kind of messiah expected, doesn't that tell you that God loves the unexpected? How else will your faith remain alive if you can predict God's move?

Think on this things.

Love,

MaryA.