John 5:7-8 “The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.”
This man had been unable to walk for thirty eight years. He was waiting by the pool of Bethesda hoping against hope that some angelic phenomenon would heal him.
He thought he could enter the pool first, after some angel “troubled the waters” and he would be healed.
The problem, he thought, was that he had “no man” to bring him quickly to the water. He lacked exactly what he needed to find the solution he desired.
We have the benefit of observing, based on this text, that He was speaking with the Great Physician, the God of the Universe, Lord over all.
He was responding to Jesus’ question “wilt thou be made whole?”
He would be. Jesus would make it so.
Whatever need we have, men may often help, but solutions, eternal solutions, come only through Christ.
John 5:7-8 “The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.”