How we see our lives and how God sees our lives are often very different. We see a tragedy when bad things happen, but God sees an opportunity. Whatever happens in life is part of God’s divine purpose and something that He can use for his glory. Joseph told his brothers who sold him into slavery that what they meant for evil, God meant for good. We often quote Paul, “all things work together for good…”, but we are not thinking about ALL things. ALL things mean more than the good things. ALL things also means the hard things, the ugly things. The tests of life are not designed to reveal our failures but rather to reveal God’s strength.

How we see our lives and how God sees our lives are often very different. We see a tragedy when bad things happen, but God sees an opportunity. Whatever happens in life is part of God’s divine purpose and something that He can use for his glory. Joseph told his brothers who sold him into slavery that what they meant for evil, God meant for good. We often quote Paul, “all things work together for good…”, but we are not thinking about ALL things. ALL things mean more than the good things. ALL things also means the hard things, the ugly things. The tests of life are not designed to reveal our failures but rather to reveal God’s strength.

How we see our lives and how God sees our lives are often very different. We see a tragedy when bad things happen, but God sees an opportunity. Whatever happens in life is part of God’s divine purpose and something that He can use for his glory. Joseph told his brothers who sold him into slavery that what they meant for evil, God meant for good. We often quote Paul, “all things work together for good…”, but we are not thinking about ALL things. ALL things mean more than the good things. ALL things also means the hard things, the ugly things. The tests of life are not designed to reveal our failures but rather to reveal God’s strength.

Change can be scary. Some people do not like change and want to stay where they are comfortable. But God doesn’t want us to be comfortable. If we are comfortable, we are not growing. God will move us from a comfortable place to the place He needs us to be. The Bible speaks many times about God preparing a place. He will call us to a place unless he has prepared it for us, and us for it. The trials in life are often God preparing to move us from place to place.

Change can be scary. Some people do not like change and want to stay where they are comfortable. But God doesn’t want us to be comfortable. If we are comfortable, we are not growing. God will move us from a comfortable place to the place He needs us to be. The Bible speaks many times about God preparing a place. He will call us to a place unless he has prepared it for us, and us for it. The trials in life are often God preparing to move us from place to place.

Change can be scary. Some people do not like change and want to stay where they are comfortable. But God doesn’t want us to be comfortable. If we are comfortable, we are not growing. God will move us from a comfortable place to the place He needs us to be. The Bible speaks many times about God preparing a place. He will call us to a place unless he has prepared it for us, and us for it. The trials in life are often God preparing to move us from place to place.

Change can be scary. Some people do not like change and want to stay where they are comfortable. But God doesn’t want us to be comfortable. If we are comfortable, we are not growing. God will move us from a comfortable place to the place He needs us to be. The Bible speaks many times about God preparing a place. He will call us to a place unless he has prepared it for us, and us for it. The trials in life are often God preparing to move us from place to place.

Change can be scary. Some people do not like change and want to stay where they are comfortable. But God doesn’t want us to be comfortable. If we are comfortable, we are not growing. God will move us from a comfortable place to the place He needs us to be. The Bible speaks many times about God preparing a place. He will call us to a place unless he has prepared it for us, and us for it. The trials in life are often God preparing to move us from place to place.

The word troubled means to stir or disrupt. Another definition is to disquiet or render anxious. The events of the day can disquiet or render us anxious. God did not intend for His people to live in fear. The bible is clear that Jesus is our strength, and He will be with us all the days of our life. It also says that His grace will make up the difference where our strength is insufficient. The only way we will know God’s full strength is in our weakness.

In our text, the man had sat by the pool of Bethesda for 38 years, waiting for his opportunity to be healed. Jesus comes along and asks if he wants to be healed. The man replies with excuses. The way the pool worked was that an angel would trouble the water, and the first one into the water would be healed. Your miracle is in the trouble. If we want our miracle, we must go into trouble.

The word troubled means to stir or disrupt. Another definition is to disquiet or render anxious. The events of the day can disquiet or render us anxious. God did not intend for His people to live in fear. The bible is clear that Jesus is our strength, and He will be with us all the days of our life. It also says that His grace will make up the difference where our strength is insufficient. The only way we will know God’s full strength is in our weakness.

In our text, the man had sat by the pool of Bethesda for 38 years, waiting for his opportunity to be healed. Jesus comes along and asks if he wants to be healed. The man replies with excuses. The way the pool worked was that an angel would trouble the water, and the first one into the water would be healed. Your miracle is in the trouble. If we want our miracle, we must go into trouble.