OUR EXPECTATIONS vs Gods Will

John 5:6-7 (ESV) 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.” Notice something in this verse. Jesus asks the man "DO you want to be healed" He responded to a question, but not the one asked. He had been sitting in this place for 38years and his mind was locked into a belief that the only way he would obtain healing was IF AND ONLY IF he could get someone to get him into the water. His time at the pool had made him tunnel vision. And HOW different are we. I recall a time when I was struggling to raise the funds for my study abroad, and I was expecting that I'd get a rich benefactor or a random scholarship to pay for the trip. I was blessed with the funds through the contribution of friends and family and NOT how I expected it would come. I also remember stressing about how I would live without steady income for 5months in a foreign city my last semester of undergrad, and instead of me getting a surprise check in the mail, or my unpaid internship turning PAID, He provided me with opportunities that saved me money, so I even had enough left over at the end of the internship to take a flight to Missouri. ALL these to say, HIS WAYS are NOT our ways, so be VERY CAREFUL that you are not STUCK expecting a blessing, or an answer to a prayer to come from ONE specific means, you JUST never KNOW. Sincerely, Onlyayo