The Healing Pool

In Jesus’ time there was a pool that was popular with the Jews of Jerusalem. The pool was known as; Bethesda which in Aramaic means “place of poured out water.” Many who were disabled came to lie beside this pool and to enter it when the water was “stirred.” Jesus found an invalid man there and asked him if he wanted to be healed and the man explained he had no one to help him into the water. Jesus then told the man to pick up his mat and walk and the man picked up his mat and walked away healed without even going into the water!

The reputation of that healing pool at Bethesda must have all started because someone back then exercised a higher level of faith for healing that caused God to perform it. God set the stage for the time when His Son would come to that very pool and proclaim healing through Himself! Others would follow thereafter believing they too would be healed in the "quickened" water. It was always their faith that caused them to be healed.

Today, we are still searching for a healing pool, a miraculous, “place of poured out water” or our own Bethesda. We are hoping to find a miracle remedy for what ails us. Our modern day “pools” could be the flood of all the new health remedies shown on television that promise instant relief from pain or those popular day spas many find beneficial. I believe God has allowed modern day medical science and some highly specialized physicians to discover miraculous new drugs and treatments that help us live longer, healthier lives.

I wonder, are these drugs and treatments our modern day  pools at Bethesda? Still, let us not forget, Jesus remains our most reliable source of healing though. Pray and believe in Him; He remains our God who still heals!