Take A Step Of Faith

Two kinds of people: Don't wait until you die - Take a step of faith!

There was a pool in Jerusalem called Bethesda: an angel stirred the water at certain times and whoever entered into the water first was healed. According to the Bible, a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, laid by the pool, waiting for the moving of the water. The Bible didn't say how many times in a year that the water was stirred, but I can imagine people encouraging them to be patient; to wait on the Lord, etc. Those people were ignorant of the fact that Jesus was in the world and that they could all receive their healings instantly, at the same time! So they kept waiting for the moving of the water... in their comfort zones, waiting in faith, dying untimely, one by one.

There was another set of people who heard about Jesus and knew that they didn't have to wait forever to get whatever they wanted. Like the woman with the issue of blood. She wasn't the only one who touched the hem of Jesus' garment: the people of Gennesaret, immediately they recognized Jesus, ran through the whole region, bringing out the sick to wherever they heard that Jesus was, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged Him that they might just touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched Him were made well! They weren't prepared to wait forever, they knew that the violent could take whatever they wanted by force, whenever they wanted it!

What's it that you are waiting patiently for, forever? You know that your chances of getting it are so slim, it's not as if you're the only one waiting and believing God for it, but you're just waiting, hoping that you will be the "lucky" or "favoured" one if you like, to have it. How much do you really want that thing? Are you going to just sit down there waiting, or are you going to get up and be "violent" and take it now by "force"? Faith is now! Nobody met Jesus and was told by Him to wait for God's perfect time! Whatever time they met Jesus was the perfect time to have whatever they wanted!

Learn this, dear brothers and sisters; God always honours those who dare to take steps of faith!

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