“…I have no one…” (John 5:7)
The context here is that there was no one who would extend mercy in the very place that is called mercy. This pool of Bethesda name means mercy. And it is so interesting to note here how there was no mercy in the place called mercy, for 38 years! (see John 5:5)
There was no mercy (for 38 years!) until Jesus made an appearance! When Jesus came there to the pool, there was mercy immediately. Like an automatic response.
How long will it take for us today to show the love mercy and grace of our Creator God? How many times have we left someone in our church alone, forgotten, neglected, having no one? When are we as the people of God going to show the mercy of our Savior to us?
It seems everyone in the world has come out of the closet except Christians! Many forgotten or shunned people in the church have not been receiving the mercy of Creator for more than 38 years. We are so quiet about Jesus that no one would guess how we do not follow Him!
As Christians we have the Source of all power, yet we see fit to waste away for 38 years, quiet. Angry. Self centered. Many of us even have the nerve to say the law of God is done away with so we can all just do whatever we want or don’t want. Yet Psalms 19:7 says “the law of the Lord is perfect. (Psalms 19:7) we live in an age where whole churches are just night clubs! When so many of us insist that God’s law no longer applies to us we need to just shut down our church and go sell watermelons!
The Bible says in John 3:19, 20 that “this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world and that people loved darkness because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest their deeds should be exposed.
A place called mercy. Where there is no mercy! Christian Night Club. Closet Christians so self centered that they will walk over top of someone for 38 years just so they can get theirs! (John 5:5)
Christians must awake to present truth. Let the redeemed of the LORD start to say so! Day after day the discouraged and downtrodden come to church. Yet the closet Christians are stoically without mercy, bitterly existing in their not so hidden, stony silence.
Perhaps this is why Creator says
Micah 6:8 (UKJV) He has showed you, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
The only ones who will make it to Heaven are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. (Rev 14:4) Jesus went to the place where there was no mercy for 38 years!
My fellow Christians, now is the time to quit the night club! Now is the time to come out of the closet! Now is the day of salvation!