Rise up and walk…

 Rise up and walk…

I realized that yesterday, January 11, was the anniversary of getting my husband a wheelchair in 2012…with cancer, he had been walking well, then digressed to using a walker, and then to a wheelchair and finally, bedridden…

I kept lifting him until I couldn’t anymore…we would chant, “walk, walk, walk, stand up tall” each step of the way so we wouldn’t lose our balance.

I know so many people were praying for us during those slow/fast months and it was that, that kept us going…

Jesus or Peter didn’t come and say, “rise and and walk” healing him from  the ailment…

Jesus came and said, “ keep your eyes on me, I am sufficient”…and we grieved over the disease that was consuming him and taking him slowly away…and we grieved over the loss of  him from our midst…there is a time to mourn…a time to weep…

But, my husband knew beyond a shadow of doubt that he was forgiven…that Jesus had said “Your sins are forgiven”…even though he couldn’t walk…

Thank YOU…

 And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. 

And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” 

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.” 

And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God. 

And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”

Luke.5.18-20Luke.5.24-26

 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 

One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 

Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 

And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

Now that day was the Sabbath. Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

John.5.2-3,John.5.5-9,John.5.13-15

 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 

And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple. 

Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. 

And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” 

And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. 

But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. 

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” 

And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. 

And leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 

And all the people saw him walking and praising God, and recognized him as the one who sat at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms. 

And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Acts.3.1-10