Among Multitude
John 5:1-9

“Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.” (John 5:2-3) Bethesda, that means mercy, was an ideal place for people of such needs to be. The Bible pointed out that a great multitude of sick people laid at Bethesda where healing only comes whenever, “…An angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.”(John 5:4) It was at this location that a man of infirmity of thirty-right years was also lying in wait, with the hope for someone to push him or help him get into the pool that only served first comers. It is possible to imagine that the paralyzed man could lay wait forever without getting into the pool first. Thank God for Jesus, the healing Healer, and the Eternal Surgeon. It was not an accident that when Jesus showed up at the pool, whose name means mercy, located a paralyzed man with no hope of getting healed. Among a great multitude of sick people lying down, Jesus spotted out a certain man with a thirty-eight year infirmity. The paralyzed man was in his lying condition, a condition with no hope, and a condition with no help on site, a condition of no way out. The man with the thirty-eight year paralyses was in a condition where there was no help behind, ahead or on the sides. The man was stagnated and could not get a hand to push him in into the pool first. Are you experiencing a similar situation where everywhere or all the ones you can turn to and the ones you have been turning to are fed up with your condition? John 5:6, “When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” Just as the Lord Jesus spotted the paralyzed man among the great multitude of sick people, so He will spot you in all that has kept you stagnated, Jesus will bring you up out of the multitude of the sick, multitude of lack, multitude of failure, and you will rise and shine for the glory of God. After thirty-eight years of stagnation, in a location where he was witnessing people gaining their motion, the man also received his healing at the commanding word of Jesus. John 5:9, “And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked…” As a result of being spotted among the great multitude of sick people, the man with paralysis’ story was changed from stagnation to motion, and he was no longer a victim of carry-about.
 
Prayer for today: Locate me O Lord, and bring me out of every area of stagnation into motion, mockery into miracle, in the name of Jesus. Amen