Instead of daily waiting on the day of Sabbath to have your rest, by keeping the law, why not seek your rest in the person of rest himself, the person of Christ Jesus; our wholesome rest in this world, who daily acquit us rest from the stress of every labor in this world.
Why not focus on him to find rest in everything you do in this world.
Jesus had to tell Martha in the book of John 11:17 that ‘I am the resurrection and the life that whosoever believeth in me, though he may die will rise again’. This was when Martha would only believe that her brother can only rise again on the last day of resurrection.
Martha had believed that she can only see her brother again on the day of resurrection. She never believes that Jesus is the resurrection we all seek to see on that last day of resurrection. Because she doesn’t really know who Jesus really was, she was prepared to wait for the special day of resurrection before she can see her brother rise to life.
This was also the case of the cripple at the pool of Bethesda in the book of John 5 Who was daily sited and waiting for the seasonal stirring of the water by an angel for a set day of healing for him to jump into the pool before he can receive his healing.
The question we may be asking is how many people do we really think can receive their healing for the seasonal stirring of the water through that mean, knowing that it’s only a chance of just one person per seasonal stirring?
Jesus asked the cripple if he will like to be heal and he said that whenever the water is
stirred there is no one to push him into the water to receive his healing.
What the cripple didn’t understand which Jesus came to clear was that he didn’t understand who Jesus really was. He didn’t know that Jesus is the healer himself they daily seek to see in that seasonal stirring of water. They didn’t understand that Jesus is possibly the person who do send the angel to go stir the water seasonally for them to receive the healing. And is now standing before him as such do not need to wait for that special day when angel do come to stir the water to receive their healing.
The bible said there were multitude of cripple by the pool side that very day but Jesus decided go and for only one of them who has being sitting by the pool side for 38 years waiting to receive his healing from the seasonal stirring of the water. His intention of going for just one of them was to correct the error of the celebrated special days of healing on a Sabbath day that take the focus off the healer himself.
Just as many churches are busy creating seasonal programs of healing and the kind before the people can receive their healing today, thereby shifting the focus from the healer to those special days and to themselves.
Jesus has to make the man understand that he doesn’t need the specific date of the stirring of the water by the angel for them to receive their healing, but rather that the healer has come to heal them of their diseases at any day and any time.
So also, it is with us today. If you are still daily waiting on that special day of Sabbath to find rest, or if you are still daily waiting on that weekly program to receive your healing
or if you are still waiting to see that special day of resurrection to come as believed to have eternal life, it will be that you do not know Jesus for who he truly is and have not receive him into your heart.
Because like the cripple and like Martha and the Sabbath people it is because they do not know who Jesus truly is that makes them to pay more attention to the special days that the maker of the days himself.
When you daily long for those special days before you can believe in God to be in action, it will be that you do not know Jesus for who he truly is, as our true rest in this world. Or as our healer and our deliverer and our resurrection and the life.
Waiting on those special days as believed by many to be holy day before they can meet with God for their needs make those days more special to them than the savior himself. That is why when you check the bible, you will discover that Jesus always long to correct that mentality in people on the Sabbath day. He always breaks their Sabbath day by doing what is supposed not to be done on a Sabbath day to make them understand that he is the Lord of the Sabbath.
Haven’t you notice how the Sabbath people put so much respect and care for the Sabbath day than the savior himself that will makes you think keeping the Sabbath Day Holy is what take one to heaven.
Jesus said come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden I will give you rest
Matthew 11:28
Jesus is the rest we daily seek to find in that self believe holy Sabbath day.
Jesus is the resurrection we long to see on the last day.
Jesus is the healing we daily long to receive in that seasonal move of the angels, that many has redesign to be the weekly or monthly move of God for the people to receive their healing.
Jesus never set days for healing program, neither do his disciples r4do. Because neither of his apostle where the healer they all know that.
The Bible said as they went preaching the word, signs and wonders follow them.
The truth is they just might not even know that God was going to heal the people as they preach the word.
With the design of healing programs, it will mean that we have so much condition God to control him on when to heal the people and when not to heal the people. Or the worst of it would be that we have so much confuse the people to believing that we are the healer and not Jesus.
For every healing that take place in the Bible was done for a reason. They were done to teach the people something. So, should any healing that must take place in our day also be done for a reason; to promote the image and the person of Jesus in the world and nothing more?
If you will ever receive the true healing, that brings wholeness to your soul, seek Jesus.
If you will ever find the true rest that bring the peace of God in our heart, focus on Jesus.
If you will ever see the true-life eternal that make you living for ever even when you are gone from this world, look and be focus on Jesus our true life. He is the healer; the rest see seek and the resurrection and the life in this world.
For all these special days are event of a description of a person. And it is the person of Jesus that was to come the world.
