“What Wouldest Thou?”

“…And Caleb said unto her, ‘What wouldest thou?’”

Joshua 15:18  King James Version

EXPLORATION

“What Wouldest Thou?”

“Anyone who…thinks that, through her own words and actions, she initiates and controls the connections between herself and God – must not have much experience of God’s boundless affection for even the grudgingest of creatures.”
Nancy Mairs

What would it mean to me to hear my heavenly Father say, “What will you have Me do for you?”

What specifically would I tell Him I want Him to do in my life?

“God’s gifts put (woman’s) best dreams to shame.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet

INSPIRATION

“When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, ‘in that case,’ He saith unto him, ‘Wouldest thou be made whole?’” John 5: 6
American Standard Version
Darby Translation

The Miracle at the Pool of Bethesda

Written by Mark Brazee

"Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 

"For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had" (John 5:2-4).

This account gives us a picture of God's sovereign side. Five sheds full of people sat by that pool. The people didn't know when the angel was coming; they just knew he was coming. They didn't know who would be healed; they just knew someone would be healed. And afterwards, the rest of the people would have to sit and wait for the next time the angel came to trouble the water.