BEING STUCK
By Max Lucado
“The man near the pool of Bethesda
didn’t use the word stuck,
but he could have. For thirty-eight years near the edge of a pool, it was
just him, his mat, and his paralyzed body. They must have made a
miserable sight. Crowds of people—blind, lame, despondent, dejected, one
after the other—awaiting their chance to be placed in the pool where
healing waters bubbled up.
“All the gospels’ stories of help and healing invite us to embrace this
wonderful promise: “Wherever Jesus went he healed people of every sort of
illness. And what pity he felt for the crowds that came, because their
problems were so great and they didn’t know what to do or where to go for
help†(Matthew 9:35–36 TLB). Jesus had a heart for the hurting in his
day.
“He still does today.â€
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