Troubling the Water

John 5

"Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep Gate. This pool in the Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porches (alcoves, colonnades, doorways.)
In these lay a great number of sick folk, some blind, some crippled and some paralyzed, waiting for the bubbling up of the water.
There was a certain man there who had suffered with a deep-seated, disorder for 38 years.
When Jesus noticed him lying there helpless, knowing that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, Do you want to become well?
The invalid answered, Sir, I have nobody when the water is moving to put me into the pool; but while I am trying to come myself, somebody else steps down ahead of me.
Jesus said to him, Get up; pick up your bed (sleeping pad) and walk!
Instantly the man became well and recovered his strength and picked up his bed and walked. But that happened on the Sabbath.
So the Jews kept saying to the man that had been healed, It is the Sabbath and you have no right to pick up your bed - it is not lawful.
He answered them, The Man Who healed me and gave me back my strength, He Himself said to me, Pick up your bed and walk!
They asked him, Who is the Man who told you, Pick up you bed and walk?

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Yes, WHO IS THE MAN????? Who is the Man that becomes the troubled, moving, living Waters of Life to creation???

And yes, we know this story at the pool of Bethesda is a day in the life of a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years ago, but that singular man Jesus was made both Lord and Christ and became a life-giving spirit that enChristens all who partake of that same spirit that raised him from the dead. And that Spirit is growing up in us to arrive at equal-status with our Elder Brother that enables us to become the same Living Waters of Life to creation. We become those who trouble the waters.

Just what does it mean to trouble the waters?....or the moving of what waters?

Our first allusion to this is with the First Mover, God.

Genesis 1:2 "...The Spirit of God was moving, (hovering, brooding) over the face of the the waters."

God was The All in One or He was all in Himself or self-contained prior to creation or prior to becoming All in all. This is God who is the Great Plenum, The Void, that is completely filled with everything that is possible or with the potential to be all things but yet has become no-thing. The Void is not a great absence, in other words, but a Great Presence of All Possibility.

The impossible becomes possible when The First Mover, moved. When S/He moved or brooded over the waters of Himself, we became.....we became the individualizations of God. We are God's ideas of Himself in all of Its infinite variety. He is the Father of Spirits. The Son is always the Father being expressed. What was once the invisible attributes of God are now made visible through God ex-pressing or pressing out of Himself his Son.

His Infinite Variety

"[The purpose is] that through the church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known..." Ephesians 3:10

We are the expressors of the many-sided wisdom of God in all of its infinite variety in our union with Him.

The Pool of Bethesda (which means.."house of mercy")

I want to suggest that the moving of the water in this story is in fact teaching that this Pool of Possibility will birth a manifestation of real Life when it is troubled or moved upon. We become those who trouble the waters out of just a state of what is probable into the possible.

Matthew 18:19 "Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven."

If two agree, if they agree as one, then the two become the ONE.

If they are "touching"....touching what???......they are, in fact, touching, troubling, moving, brooding, over the waters, the waters of the Great Void of All Possibilities, calling those things that are not as though they were just as it was shown us in Genesis in the beginning.

God is teaching us how in our Now...it is not enough to just know what we are, we have to know how to move in the Now that we are.

That is what real prayer is....it is movement upon the face of our deep....our True Self, our Godself. It is the calling forth from the grave, or the place of the unseen, into the seen, or into manifestation.

Speaking of the faith of Abraham and how he would become the Father of many nations we are told:
"Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed......
As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be." Rom 4: 16-18

This is how we birth into being "our nations", our inheritance in Christ.....by troubling our waters, calling up from the deep those things that Spirit says are ours.

Let's agree to give this world some "trouble"....the likes of which they have never imagined possible....troubling them into true Life and Liberty.....moving over the face of the deep and calling those things that be not as though they were...Calling them healed and whole and perfect in Christ Jesus.