Jesus is always there for us
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Faith Fitness
Bro. Sam Kaufman
Sometimes we humans feel so alone, but we don’t need to feel that way.
We think within our minds that there is nobody who can help us. Wrong again.
Help is always available if we are willing to receive it. God shows us in His Word that He is there for us.
One example is found in John 5. It involved a unique pool located by the sheep market in Jerusalem back then.
The pool was called Bethesda and contained five porches. Numerous people with various physical ailments – ranging from blindness to paralysis – laid in the porches with great expectations.
That’s because an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. When the change in the water was detected, the race was on.
Whoever stepped into the water first was healed of their ailment.
Surely, there was a mad dash among the sick to be the first into the water. It was a competition among those who were hurting. Jockeying likely occurred to gain the closest spot to the water, as well.
One man who managed to find a spot in the porch area had little hope for healing. He had his infirmity for 38 years and couldn’t move into the pool by himself.
A day came when Jesus saw him laying down. Jesus also knew how long the man had suffered from his infirmity. In fact, Jesus knows everything about all people – including the number of hairs on their heads.
For some like me, who are bald, the number is much less. But Jesus still knows the number, and everything else about us. He knows us better than we know ourselves.
At any rate, Jesus saw him there and asked the man if wanted to be made whole.
The man, who was unable to walk, told Jesus that he didn’t have anybody to put him into the pool when the water was troubled.
That is troubling to think about. Consider it for a moment. Nobody was there to help the man. But it also revealed that Jesus finds us in our hopeless and helpless conditions.
It reveals that Jesus is always there – even when nobody else is. When we think nobody is there to help, the most amazing One is available. And what a friend we have in Jesus. He is a friend like no other. Jesus provides what nobody else can. He can forgive our sins. He can heal our bodies.
He paid the price for both through His atonement. He is available 24/7.
He created the heavens and the earth, and us, for that matter. He knows and supplies our every need.
Sometimes, God will get us in a position where we are more apt to call on Him. Think of the Prodigal Son, who hit rock bottom and had nowhere else to look but to his father.
If we find God, we have what we truly need.
Jesus simply said to the impotent man at the pool porch to “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.”
The man didn’t have to compete to get into the pool. We don’t have to compete to receive healing, forgiveness, or God’s love and presence in our lives.
He is available to all. He stands at the door and knocks. His still small voice lets us know of His availability.
Upon hearing Jesus’ words, the impotent man was immediately made whole, and took up his bed, and walked.
Jesus later found the man in the temple, and said unto him, “Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.”
That worse thing wasn’t a physical ailment or complication, but a spiritual condition of sin sickness that leads to death, hell and the lake of fire.
Jesus is available to make us whole in every sense, and we can follow Him.
