“MIRACLE FROM GOD!”

 

“MIRACLE FROM GOD!”

John 5:1-9                        (ESV)

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

“[1] After this there was a feast of the Jews, and JESUS went up to Jerusalem.

[2] Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. [3] In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. [5] One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. [6] When JESUS saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, HE said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” [7] The sick man answered HIM, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” [8] JESUS said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” [9] And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. 

Now that day was the Sabbath.”

A word that I was introduced to while reading the medical records from the Brain Hemorrhage in 2007 is APHASIA.  One dictionary defines the word as “Partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from DAMAGE TO THE BRAIN from injury or disease.”  At first it was uncomfortable to admit that I am BRAIN DAMAGED, but the alternative didn’t leave a tremendous amount of room either!  Whenever I feel disgruntled that I was left with APHASIA, my limited memory reminds me of the writings from medical records in September 2007.  “However, he has had a remarkable recovery that could only be described as a MIRACLE FROM GOD"!  

With these words in mind, how am I to question anything about how ALMIGHTY GOD chose to “restore” my health when the remaining outcome was seemingly not going to be very desirable?  The paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda was in a similar position as I was following my hospitalization.  I was initially unable to walk, speak (very much), or swallow properly, BUT I had THE BEST HEALER working on my behalf, JESUS CHRIST!  

Admitted to the Rehabilitation Hospital on August 09, 2007, I was “hemiplegic” on my right side, a form of trauma induced paralysis that affects either side of the body, often just one arm and one leg, but occasionally with symptoms extending partially into the torso.  I was unable to converse very effectively and had a “peg tube” placed into my stomach so I could receive nutrients from a liquid that was poured directly into my stomach from a can!  Without going through all of the tedious details, 21 MIRACULOUS days later I WALKED OUT OF REHAB with the help of a medical walker, AND DEFINITELY BY THE GRACE OF GOD!  

While watching THE CHOSEN series recently at church, the account of hearing the testimony from the paralyzed man was observed by me, a man at least according to my doctor is a “MIRACLE FROM GOD”!  While my recovery might not be as well known as the one written about in John 5, for we who have lived through “the valley of the shadow of death”, it is both humbling and greatly appreciated that GOD CHOSE ME to do something so MAGNANIMOUS!  While it is TRUTH that I have to be more selective and deliberate in the selection of the words I use, being CHOSEN to be a “MIRACLE FROM GOD” is a BLESSING from ABOVE, one that I am led to TELL others about every opportunity that I get!!!