When healing is our need, whether physical, spiritual, or emotional; John 5 provides a tool set designed to get us well on our way to savoring God's healing, when he chooses to bequeath it to us.
A lame man virtually lived at a pool Bethesda in search of healing, which would be the portion of the first to breach the pool, when an angel troubled the waters. He cared to live life untroubled by paralysis, which bound him. From him we learn the virtue of actively staying on path so that when he chooses to heal us, we are walking the anticipation, belief, and gratitude becoming of his children.
His Healing Was Unordinary
John 5:6, 8 NIV
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
God's healing comes to us in his time and way. For some his healing comes quickly: for others it takes times.
His hand of healing is always guided by a perfect purpose greater than our minds and hearts can grasp.
His Healing Was Unorthodox
John 5:9-10, 17 NIV
At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”
He healed the crippled man on the most unexpected of days.
Christ underscored the purpose of the law; it was to serve a greater purpose.
The law was meant to benefit man not deprive him of his needs, it was to help man, not hurt him by making for missed opportunities.
No time is not a right time for God to further his work of healing in us. Our best interest is Important to him as he call us his children. From the heart, every day, he is compelled to meet our needs.
Charles Finney's conversion experience bears witness to this; it's always a great day to stumble on healing as we, like the man by the pool, live in a frame of mind, where God truly benefit us through his healing work.
His Healing Was Unprecedented
John 5:16-19 NIV
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
He went against Mishnah laws 39 strong and broke the Sabbath, demonstrating his lordship over it.
Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath. It was was a means to a greater end.
Knowing this lame man had waited on his healing for 38 years, Christ saw the trade off of breaking the Sabbath as less than the loss to be incurred in not healing this man in his desperation.
Christ knows and sympathizes with us in our broken state and stands willing to use his place of power with the Father to show us the love and strength his in his Father to help us.
He moves to heal in his purposed time and way in ways that are incomparable and beyond explanation.
He moves to heal us with a healing that always bears his stamp.
Our healing was meant to be multifaceted -enriching us, expanding his kingdom, and empowering others to more actively wait on him in trust in their path of duty (as they would on a spear to their death, Biblical trust) for his timely healing.
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