Tuesday of 4th Week of Lent: reflection
THEME: JESUS: OUR FOUNTAIN OF
LIFE AND HEALING
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Readings: Ez 47: 1-9,12; Jn 5:1-16
In today’s gospel, Jesus healed a helpless sick
man who was sick for 38 years. The man was lying down on one of the streets
close to the pool of Bethzatha, with the hope of getting an opportunity to jump
into the pool to get healed. But for many years, he lost all opportunities that
came because all the times the waters of the pool were stirred by the angel,
someone stronger than him always jumped into the pool before he could get
close.
When you look at the sick man, you will see a
man who suffered from missed opportunities in life because of physical and
spiritual incapacities, a man who failed to grasp opportunities to be better in
life because of life’s challenges. It was in his helpless situation that Jesus
came to him and gave him that thing for which he had spent many years at the
pool, that thing which other people who were stronger than him denied him for
several years. Jesus told him: “do you want to be healed?”
By healing the sick man, Jesus demonstrated
that he is the God who comes to the rescue of people who are less fortunate in
life, those who lose out on opportunities to improve their lives due to
circumstances beyond their control, as well as those who suffer denial of
opportunities in the hands of those who are stronger than them.
In the first reading, the prophet Ezekiel saw
the water flowing from the temple and giving life to all creatures it came in
contact with. Jesus is the temple from which living water flows into our lives
and heals us of all infirmities, the fountain of water that can be accessed by
both the strong and the weak, the privileged and the under privileged, the rich
and the poor, the healthy and the sick. What, then, are you waiting for? He is telling
you today: “if you want to be healed (spiritually and physically), come to me
the fountain of life and the pool of healing.”
May your efforts this Tuesday be richly
blessed. Amen
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