WORD FOR LIFE: PITY PARTY

WORD FOR LIFE: PITY PARTY: WAITING AT THE WATER FOR A MIRACLE              When I try to get in the water, someone comes before me so I cannot get in"        ...

PITY PARTY

WAITING AT THE WATER FOR A MIRACLE          
  When I try to get in the water, someone comes before me so I cannot get in"

      

             I can never remember how many times I used this same excuse system:

 If only I could get a beak

I never seem to be in the right place at the right time

 This country offers me nothing now with all that is going on

 So many excuses and all untrue:

 Jesus nonetheless walks up to the man which to me, is a real blessing because how could such a thing happen,I wonder?

 I mean if I am pathetically laying there for many years feeling sorry for myself and making excuses why I cannot rise to the water, why should the Son of God come to me?

  I need a good kick in the butt is what I need.

But Jesus does not think so............

 Instead He heals the man and offers him eternal life!!!!!

 Now wait a sec........ Should Jesus not have lectured him on how he should not be a lazy slob and make excuses all his life?

 Should Jesus not point out to him how God only helps those who help themself?(not biblical yet we use it a lot)

 NO, No, NO!!!!! Our Jesus asks him a good question such as,"Buddy, do ya wanna be well?" which leads up to a host of excuses the man has for his being in that state all the long years he was there.  boy if I was there I would have given that man a piece of my mind!!!!

 Or wait a sec, my excuses are pretty much the same as his,or so I think they are

 I can run off a dozen right now without even thinking bout it

YET THROUGH ALL THIS EXCUSE MAKING LAZY PITIFUL BEHAVIOR JESUS STILL CAME TO THE MAN.

 HE STILL COMES TO US

 He is NOT in the business of shaming or blaming but rather RENAMING us in His name!!!!
 Jesus saw something in this pathetic man even though there were many others there waiting for a healing too

Yet we are only told of this mans story at this particular place and time

 Without thinking about why that is I rather praise God for His mercy and care,His ever lasting protection.

TY Jesus

  

  

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