We treat God this way too many times. He says something in his Word, we read it, then we twist it, complicate it, rethink it, and then change it to fit our circumstances. When all he wanted us to do was to turn around and do it the way he said.

Nobody getting healed, nobody getting taught, no grand spiritual impartation— and yet John sees fit to include this story. So why does John include this account?

What are you doing with this gift of life that God has given you?

The night can be so dark when you don’t understand the hand of God. Jesus tried to prepare his disciples for what was about to happen

He was looking down the barrel of the crucifixion but celebrating the Resurrection! His focus was on God’s promise to raise him from the dead! Jesus believed his father and acted on it.

Receive this from me today God. I am stating with this gift the importance that you hold in my life. What do we bring to God that indicates who he is to us?

Do you believe Jesus and take Him at His word? Do you reject it all? Do you treat it as a fairy tale, say it can’t possibly happen, say it was all made up and the Bible was just perpetuated by people with nefarious reasons?

What are you doing here? What are you hoping for?

38 years disabled. Laying by the pool day-in and day-out. Jesus asks him if he wants healing, but he never answers the question. Jesus heals him anyway. — His whole life was changed in that moment.

You are not so far from God that he cannot forgive you. He told the woman at the well, “You are seeking the right God, but the wrong way.” Then he unfolded it for her.