On the Way to Holy Week II

Drawing on Living Water

For those who couldn't get to the Lenten Quiet Day at the church, once a week for the next few weeks in this space there will be posted one of the five meditations from scripture, and the associated questions for contemplation.  Pour a cuppa, dig out your Bible and a journal, find a quiet spot, and begin...

Second Meditation

John 5: 2-9a (NIV)

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.  

Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 

 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”  At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath...

Questions to Ponder

Do I want to be made well?

In what ways is Jesus asking me to stand up, to get up, to be resurrected?

In what areas in my life have I been unable or unwilling 

to bring myself to the healing waters of Jesus?