John chapter 5

Once again, I am posting late at night! I actually read chapter 6 tonight instead of chapter 5 so I had to do a double reading. I hope everyone had a great day today and attended some awesome church services. I'm really enjoying reading all of this scripture every night. My life is already changing for the better. My thoughts have been more positive today than they have been in a while.

In the beginning of John 5, we see where a man has been sick for 38 years and cannot ever make it into the pool healed. Can you imagine being that man!? Imagine sitting at that pool for years and trying to make it in but getting cut off by other people every time. I'm sure he was angry, sad and depressed. Jesus knew this man felt there was no hope, but he immediately gave him the hope that he needed and he healed him! I know that there aren't many of us who have suffered with being sick for 38 years, but I do know that some people have suffered with different sicknesses such as cancer for a good while. Please don't be discouraged. If Jesus healed this man after 38 years, then he can do the same for you. That is really easy for me to say because I haven't been sick like that, but I do have a child who has an immune disorder. I have held him and cried myself to sleep on many different nights because I wasn't in control. There wasn't anything I could do to "fix" this issue. I slowly began to trust God with the situation. We still don't have many answers as to whether or not he will grow out of this disorder or he will continue to have it for the rest of his life, but I know this...God is the ultimate healer. Not a doctor!

In verse 10, the Pharisees became angry because this man that was healed was walking around and holding his mat. To them, that was considered work. They didnt even see the man standing in front of them. They didnt care that he had been healed. All they cared about was their silly rule that stated he couldn't work on a Sunday. I think that we as Christians are like the Pharisees sometimes. Instead of rejoicing that a new person is coming to church, we look at what they're wearing and we think that it's "inappropriate" for church. While that may be true, we don't need to focus on what they're wearing. Their heart is much more important to Jesus than their clothes. This isn't the only example I have, but I just chose to write about they one. Our attitudes stink sometimes. We need daily refreshment in our Lord. We can do this by attending church, reading our Bible, praying, and speaking about God with others.

At this time, the Pharisees began to doubt Jesus. They didnt understand why he believed himself to be the Son of God. They followed Moses's teachings. Moses wrote about Jesus, and they STILL didn't believe Jesus was the Messiah! For them, Jesus was standing right in front of them. It should have been easier for them to believe since they could see him! This tells me that daily reading and prayer is vital in our relationship with Christ. We can't physically see Jesus. We can feel him and experience his presence, and that is wonderful. We just need to be careful that we don't get the attitude that the Pharisees had about everything. We rent better than anyone just because we attend church on a regular basis.

Jesus gave three signs that were mentioned in the Bible already that referred to his first coming. He mentioned these things when he was speaking with the Pharisees. He said:
1. All power and authority will be given to him as the son of man.
2. Lame and sick are healed.
3. The dead will be raised to life.

He warned them that they believed Moses's teachings, but yet they don't follow everything he wrote about because he wrote about Jesus and Jesus was standing right in front of them and they still didn't believe he was God's son.

After all these things were fulfilled, the Pharisees still did not believe that he was the Son of God. Jesus came here as a normal man. Just like any other man. I believe God did that on purpose. We can relate to Jesus because he was just like us. He was born as a man and died as a man. Nothing we can do can ever top that. Once again, I am praying for each and every one of you. Tomorrow nights post will be longer and more detailed. Have a blessed day.