This is one of those passages that always draws out a lot of questions. It’s quite the picture, with angels coming to stir the water… and then the first person in being healed from it.
God’s ability to work in this manner is not what one should wonder about when reading this passage. God can do much more than this. The question is why would He work in this particular way. It almost seems out of character. But then the end of Romans 11 comes to mind…
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
“Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
“Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay him?”
For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
We must be careful when we think that something is outside of God’s will simply because we’ve never heard of it before. Obviously we must filter things through the Bible, but what we don’t want to do is limit God when He never told us He would not do the type of thing in question. The leaders did just that in response to this same event, and it drove them to persecute Jesus. We must be careful.
On the other side of the coin, there are indeed many things the world falsely credits to God. God hates it… it’s called using His Name in vain. We do not want to join in with that either.
Instead, let us take the straight and narrow path. Let us join in on proclaiming what we do know about Him. And let us continue to treasure up His Word in our hearts, that we may grow in our knowledge of Him. That we may experience and enjoy one of the greatest things God has placed into all of creation… an ever deepening love between man and the Almighty.
Romans 12:2-3
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
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I like this passage. I do wonder at times what that must have looked like, how the person felt in the water… how cool it is that God decided to do that.
I like how you encourage us to stay on the straight and narrow.
Not everything is for us to understand. Gods ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts higher than ours as well…
what we ARE called to do though is to follow Him…regardless of what we understand or can grasp. The important things that we need to understand for salvation have been made plain… thats all we NEED to understand.