When Jesus Wants To Work

When Jesus Wants To Work

When the time comes for something to happen, that thing must surely happen no matter what. There is no force on this planet that can stop the time destined for something when the appropriate time comes. No wonder the Ecclesiasties (3 :1-8) says that there is time for everything: time to make merriment and time to mourn, time to build and time to destroy, time to plant and time to uproot.

Though, prayer and faith changes a lot of things and people always tell you that faith is a special ingredient needed for the speedy answer to your prayers, but then there are situations that have proved that God does what He wants at His own time.

Let’s examine the life of the invalid, the Bible says at the pool of Bethsaida. This pool have the tradition of stirring once a year and whosoever that enters first will be healed instantly. So because of this, a great number of disabled people: the blind, lame, and the paralyzed lie about the pool for their healing. Then on this faithful day, Jesus was passing and saw him lying there. Jesus learnt  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 get into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” This man’s case is not the case of him calling Jesus to heal him. No, rather Jesus himself saw him, learned of him and passionately wants to heal him; for somehow his time for getting whole has come.

The passage didn’t tell us that the invalid seeks out for instant healing, rather he complained of his inability to help himself get whole when the pool is stirred. Again, the passage didn’t tell us that Jesus had concern for his level of faith but for the man getting whole. 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. This is a miracle, a Sunday miracle. Jesus didn’t mind whether the man asked for it, neither did He mind that that very day was a Sunday. He did it; He healed him of an eight-year sickness. And see the good news about this healing, the man who was healed was later found in the temple where he recognized that it was Jesus that healed him and told the Jews so; bringing about the spreading of the gospel of Jesus. Glory to God.