"Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool which is called in Hebrew Bethesday, having five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted" (John 5:2-4).
"A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, 'Do you wish to get well?'" (John 5:5-6).
The word translated here as "seasons" is kairos and the word translated "time" is chronos. The lame man had been there for a great many seconds . . . minutes . . . even hours . . . a great many days, months, and, yes, years waiting for the kairos--the opportunity for healing. Today, however, the stirring would not be in the waters, it would be in the voice of Jesus asking, "Do you want to get well?" He need only enter into the kairos that Jesus was presenting.
Today, your kairos (your opportunity for something special to happen) may come at any time and in any form. Don't miss it just because it's inconvenient or unexpected. Even now, if you listen carefully, you may just hear the whisper of Jesus...
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