Waiting near the Pool at Bethesda

Today as a few issues ravaged pieces of my heart, I thought of the pool in Bethesda. The scripture in John 5:1-15 recounts how the halt, lame, blind, and unwhole waited for an angel to move the water.When that happened, they would enter the water and were healed. There was a lame man who had been afflicted for thirty-eight years who also waited at the water. I'm not sure if he had been lame for thirty-eight years or waited thirty-eight. He had no way to enter on his own and once that water stirred, people must have pushed him out of the way so they could be in the water as it moved. He waited. Hoping. When Jesus saw this, he asked the man if he would be whole. Not knowing Jesus and his power, he explained - did he whine?- his unhappy predicament. Jesus then commanded him to fold up his mat, arise and be whole.

I've been waiting at the water much too long. It's time to arise and be whole.