Pool of Bethesda
I just want to share this. I’m applying this to me only. If it helps other then great; but it is by no means meant to shame anyone…
He came to me. “Do you want to be made well!”
I reply, “I don’t think I can, you see I was. Sexually abused by my stepfather; I have same sex attraction, gender dysphasia, had homosexual relationships, keep seeking men, don’t like my therapist, can’t find support…”
Him, “I didn’t really ask you to fix all that first.”
“Rise, carry you life and live…”
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, which is called in Hebrew, [a]Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, [c]waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. 5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked
He came to me. “Do you want to be made well!”
I reply, “I don’t think I can, you see I was. Sexually abused by my stepfather; I have same sex attraction, gender dysphasia, had homosexual relationships, keep seeking men, don’t like my therapist, can’t find support…”
Him, “I didn’t really ask you to fix all that first.”
“Rise, carry you life and live…”