“When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”” (John 5:6-8 ESV)
Though God often chooses to use means to work out His plan for our lives, it is not always necessary. Evidently, God had used this pool, at the stirring of an angel many times to bring healing to the sick and afflicted. It was this means in which the paralyzed man was hoping. Little did he realize that the one who called the world's into existence was right there before his eyes, and could simply command his healing!
Let us be careful that we are not hoping in the means that God uses, rather than in God Himself! God may not be using the means that we are praying that He uses, but may chose to bring the real desire of our hearts another way. May we trust Him, and never become frustrated because He isn't doing things the way we expect Him to.
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