I’m just waking up with great focus, not my great, as it’s just wake-up from a madness of crazy dreams, but a wake up into the real great focus of being awake, the focus of a Great, and a great focus. When we wake up, let us say “THANK YOU LORD for waking me up!” 

And next, I can say, “What, Lord, are we talking about today?”…

Lord, You are the One Who soothes and satisfies, and if nothing else (and there’s plenty else), I’m thankful for You waking me up to be thankful. “Whew” is a phrase which describes my attitude and response and drive to keep going. Yes, there is busy ahead of us and busy behind, but nothing can be approaching God’s Busy Business with orchestrating and providing and captivating and corralling us – from providing a way in to LIFE and a way OUT of confusion or mess by sleeping a moment to reset, and that’s just us, hopefully on His time frame, so imagine the orchestration in God’s Busy Business is not limited to ‘just us’, not just earth, neither physically known nor mentally perceived nor spiritually understood. If we learn how Big we are in God’s heart, we also know we are but one small fraction of a fraction in life. Yet, God knows us and loves us immensely immense.

To learn something about God is to wonder why even more.

I wonder why I wonder, do you? Because when we wonder about God, there’s always more to know and wonder about. 

We hunger for understanding and yet understand that we can’t understand all. And I question why I am allowed to question, only to understand God is the only answer in an unraveling scenario for earth which is still under His control. God still reigns, and will return for His people here, of us collectively. 

And us? We must take in and know the knowledge of the Hope of Him before we even know Him fully, we must walk with our Hope and mission all while Jesus is still finding us find our way. We walk through the world just as much as we always did before we knew Jesus was our guide. We have met Jesus and just as He guides, we must listen, listen even more… Wonder but still walk.

If we are commanded to walk into our future, like the crippled man at the pool of Bethesda, who didn’t even have to touch the water there to be healed, but be healed by the Words of Jesus, then we also must be healed by the Word of Jesus, knowing His Grace and Mercy and blessings and forgiveness. And test ourselves, “Do I truly believe Jesus as my Lord and King?” We must know what we didn’t know before Jesus brought us knowledge of Him, all while unmasking our fear and shame in front of Him. If we didn’t know, we didn’t, but now we do, we DO know Jesus. 

We must live, must make the best, must make a difference, must be thankful by the Word of Jesus. The once crippled man at that pool of Bethesda (John 5) answered the Jews questioning ‘who gave authority to work’ on the Sabbath, the man answered: “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ” That man surely was then standing eye to eye with those who had always not even seen him enough to move him to the water. He stood as proof that Jesus was the answer all along.

Of the proof of living through Jesus, for Jesus, in Jesus, well doesn’t that also come FROM Jesus? YES. Yes, then if later if we have lost our way in a path that was clearly lit, but we diverted, well we must return to Jesus. Lest we forget what we have already learned, we come back to the scriptures, as through scripture we see Jesus come alive and connect all the dots, with authority and example and fulfillment. 

Jesus said we live in Him, through Him and will keep on living (John 5): “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. 

So, our life in God’s Busy Business has already started, let’s just keep walking, one day at a time. One step at a time. (and yes, take your mat with you, because at some point in life we are going to need a nap!)

Amen 

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John 5 NKJV

A Man Healed at the Pool of Bethesda

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.

And that day was the Sabbath. The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”

He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ”

Then they asked him, “Who is the Man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”

The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Honor the Father and the Son

For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”

Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Life and Judgment Are Through the Son

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

The Fourfold Witness

“If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. But I have a greater witness than John’s; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very works that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

“I do not receive honor from men. But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God? Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”