Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades . Here a great number of disabled people used to lie - the blind, the lame , the paralysed.
There is a tree that makes bitter waters sweet! It’s the cross of calvary, on the tree where Christ died for you and me — when your heart is touched by this tree, all bitterness flees and you are free.
God does a cleansing work in all He calls His own... He cleanses us by His Word and by His Spirit, and we experience His continual cleansing as we continually come to Him… the key is to come.
The goal of the Christian life is to fulfill the perfect will of Him who called us. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That’s where the dream life is found… when our lives are pleasing in His sight.