Lots of Needs🤢🤮🤧🩼

Today we start John 5.

Proverbs gives words of wisdom.

John’s Gospel shows Jesus Christ living out wisdom.

 John 5:1-3

1 “After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.

3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed,”

 Insights:

v1 There is a feast. That means a lot of people are in Jerusalem to worship God.

v2 There is pool called Bethesda. That means, “house of mercy.”

v3 There are many sick & injured people gathered at the pool looking for mercy & healing. That means a lot of waiting, hoping & broken hearts.

 Where can we go & find people needing help, mercy? Hospitals,

retirement homes, classrooms, our neighborhood, work place, church, schools: Everywhere!

 Often I miss seeing needy people around me. More fun looking for the energetic winner. We cheer them on to victory. But a good team has young, scared, injured, distracted members that need attention more than the captain. The good coach, parent, boss, leader, also looks for the needy members of his group.

Shepherd Our Flock.🐑