Reflection on John 5

Reflection on John 5

Jesus is the BETTER Healer. 
He heals the man who had been ill for 38 years and uses this miracle to glorify God.

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

(John 5:16-18)

Jesus is the BETTER worker. 
He uses all his time, all his gifts and all his life to glorify God and to point people to worship and obey God.

19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.

(John 5:19-23)

May we always seek Jesus as our healer for all of our physical and spiritual illnesses/ dis-eases.

May we always love, serve, work and live so that ALL our lives, our time, our resources are used to glorify God. We have been given all these things as gifts and we owe it all to God.