Pick Up Your Mat And Walk

The day on which this took place was a sabbath 10 and so the jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed it is the sabbath.

Pick up your mat and walk. He picked up his mat and walked. Get up jesus told him pick up your mat and walk what does john 5 8 mean. I discoverd that the door has been open for a long time i didnt know because it was closed for as long as i remember. Which is easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven or to say rise pick up your mat and walk the man then rises up and walks away healed and changed forever.

Pick up your mat and walk. For example we all feel pressure to be productive and to use our time wisely but if we re not careful we will as peter drucker says manage for the sake of management instead of managing. We have been healed for a long time been. I cannot just walk however as you scan your body you realize that you do in fact have some mobility in your extremities.

Now this happened on the sabbath day. Permit him to see you through the difficult days of life. It s easy to mistake the means for the ends and in doing so to settle for less than we were intended for. This official wanted healing for his son and was persistent in asking jesus for it.

9 immediately the man was made well and he picked up his mat and began to walk. As you finish your conversation jesus says now i invite you to pick up your mat and return home at first you are astounded thinking but i am paralyzed. While i am on my way someone else goes in before me 8 then jesus told him get up pick up your mat and walk. Pick up your mat and walk 9 at once the man was cured.

He is still the miracle maker and he can still heal a broken heart. I was shocked i realised that this time is talking to me because i was the one reading. Whatever you are holding on to tighter than your faith i believe jesus would say pick up your mat and walk trust him with that in which you currently trust the most. The reason i appreciate this specific story so much is that it unabashedly proclaims an embodied christianity.

Allow him to carry your burdens strengthen your walk and brighten your hope for the future. One day i came across the scripture. Jesus granted the request but made the man prove out his own faith by leaving. Jesus said to him get up pick up your mat and walk.

The law forbids you to carry your mat.