What Can Jesus Change?

John 5:1-4

After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

It almost seems that every time someone turns around there's a feast. Maybe you yourself know how that is. Stuck somewhere between feasting and famine. with want on one hand and abundance on the other. It almost seems unfair does it not? So too the devil once found as he stalked through the earth, seeking while he may devour. But here there is quite another situation going on, one that speaks of human nature. It is into this situation then that Jesus comes. See, you might not believe it just yet, but therein lies the power to change things.

Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

So also, is there a place seen by side of the children and the market of plenty. Not so long before, the sheep were sacrificed unto God. So also have some of us been led as sheep having no shepherd. Before whom our Savior lamb had to come, before his shearers led helpless and dumb. Little wonder then that it was to this pool that Jesus had come. Notice it's position alongside the market for sheep. So once were some of us being bought and sold by the world until our Good Shepherd Jesus was come. See how the Master lays down his life for the sheep and for the sheep takes it back up again. He came unto his own at the house of sheep without a shepherd and in need grace. Yet regardless of how many porches it had, the house would have done better to receive him.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

Within we see then all those in need of healing. Just as some of us do, these either came in daily or else lived here in hope of finding some mercy. Here the term impotent refers to those who could not do it themselves. How often we have need of God who can do for us. Yet some, like these people here, still sit waiting on the water, an angel, or some other such nonsense. In times like these, really, we should be looking for God himself. So, he can care for us like none other. Being himself the creator of such: the water, an angel, or even ourselves. So then too such is our condition in place of the Lord.

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

Only he can change it, for even the disorder and them that in it appear must answer before him. So, then the Lord came not to this place to condemn any but rather to change them. Both the situation and the condition must bow to his presence. It flees away before him. It is sure then that whatever the angel could do, the Lord would do better. For even so he need not to trouble any. See, the Lord's presence brings peace and with him is the fullness of joy. So, then the situation need not to have entered in at all. How some of us would do well but to trust him. Then of this we can be sure, that he will not leave it stuck, the same, nor ever unchanged.