An affliction can be anything that causes someone persistent pain, distress, misery or grief.
There are some who want to remain in their situation.
They try to hang on to them as an excuse for dodging their responsibilities.
While there are others who strive to make the changes necessary.
They want to improve their situation, no matter the sacrifices they may have to make.
The same is true in our Spiritual lives.
Some of us don’t want to make changes to the way we think or to repent of our sins.
We would rather continue in our spiritual blindness than accept Jesus as our Messiah and be made whole.
There is much to learn when we read about the cure at the pool of Bethesda. (Vv.1-9)
It is teaching us to be careful not to let a season slip away which may never return.
There was a certain man that was there, which had an infirmity.
He could not move around as quickly as others.
He had been dealing with it for thirty and eight years.
He was there because he had a desire to be healed.
Because of his health issue, when the angel came down and troubled the water, he wasn’t able to be the first to step in and be healed.
Christ saw him and singled him out from the rest.
He asked him the question: “Wilt thou be made whole?”
No matter our affliction, we can find comfort in knowing that God keeps account of how long we have been in our situation.
The Lord is always ready to free us from any situation we find ourselves in.
But He cannot do it until we want to be cleansed, freed from sin and truly changed.
This man desired to be cured, but thought he missed the opportunity.
The Lord already knew he felt this way and cures him, though he neither asked nor thought of it.
Our proof that a spiritual cure is always possible.
We are to take all our problems to the Lord and ask for the healing we need.
Giving us the power to arise and walk.
A WORD OF PRAYER
Lord, Thank You for healing our spiritual diseases. It is only when we admit our weaknesses can we be made strong. Allowing us to rise and to walk.
In Jesus Name We Pray, Amen