When things look especially hopeless for you, remember who is standing between you and your need – Jesus.
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada, and I love picturing that scene by the pool of Bethesda described in John 5. So many, many sick and diseased and disabled people sitting around, hoping and longing to be healed in the waters of the pool. One man lying there had been paralyzed for 38 years – things for him looked especially hopeless. When Jesus asked him if he wanted to be made whole, his response was, “Sir … I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” The man was thinking he needed someone to help him get into the water. But what he really needed was standing right in front of him – Jesus, the healer. Friend, when things look especially hopeless for you, remember who is standing between you and your need. It’s Jesus, the healer. That’s such a wonderful lesson, even from 2000 years ago by the Pool of Bethesda.
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