When I was offered this free water, this life giving water, I thought everyone wanted to drink deeply, to be healed. To be set free. I was offered this water that soothed my soul. That same water that was offered to this woman that was met in the middle of a day by a Man that had no right, no business to be talking to her. She was the wrong culture and the wrong sex, but, there she was, minding her own business, used to being ignored by life, used to ignoring herself, and being talked to by this Man. He saw her coming, He saw her thirst. He saw her need, and offered her something. She did not know that there was anyone with bold audacity to actually follow through on an offer so great. God offered her the opportunity to heal. Can you imagine that healing was her choice? He offered her water, like real water, so that she would no longer go to the physical for a cathartic experience but could now allow the One who saw her to cauterize her. She had a choice. All of us do. Most just don’t want to be healed. They would rather wear the bleeding parts of them like a suit of armor. Jesus asked another man by a pool of water - do you want to be healed? He could have said no, but chose yes. What was the ratio of spectators to those that were actually healed next to Jesus I wonder? Here He is, God, in the flesh, they, standing so close, standing in His presence, with fulness of opportunity right in front of them, and still the question loomed, do-i-even-want-to-be-healed?Do-I-even-want-to-be-seen? What will people think of me if I live past my condition? What will they say when I tell them that He saw me and I made the choice to heal towards Him? Will they get it? Will they understand? Will they even care? Should they? Care that is. Will I boldly and audaciously speak up and tell them the truth? What happens when I heal and I look up and there is no one standing there with me? What then? What if the promise of the cross becomes my only heart’s desire fulfilled in the end? Truth is, there are no guarantees in healing, only choices to continue or stop. There are no guarantees of time frames, consistencies, modalities, only your desire to heal, and should you choose, know that the cost is daily. Know that the cost is everything. there. are. no. guarantees.
