WHO STIRS THE WATER?

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There is a story in the Gospel according to John about a pool called Bethesda.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What made this pool special was the belief that once in a while an angel would come down and stir its waters. When the water was in motion whoever entered the pool would be healed from any illness.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Imagine the scene: the pool surrounded by people of all kinds of sickness waiting anxiously for the water to move.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The main issue however was that everyone needed healing. Because they all had the same urgent need there was no time or ability to help one another.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The only ones who could truly help were those who were healthy - those who did not need to enter the water themselves.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This story makes me think of the world today filled with people needing physical emotional and spiritual healing.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And the only place where they can find true healing is God - who knows exactly what each of us needs.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yet so many people do not know how to approach God.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's where someone who can introduce them comes in - someone who can stir the waters helping others find their way.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is where the Church comes in: those called to stir the waters to help others get close to God.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As I mentioned before only those who do not need to enter the pool themselves - those who are whole and healed - can truly help others.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only they can put others' needs before their own.</span></p>