Category: Quote of the Day

The impotent man at the pool of Bethesda was waiting for a moving of the waters. How this ailing world today looks to movements, political and social, to alleviate its sick and sad condition! Furthermore, that man waited for a man: “I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool…” (John 5:7). How ailing humanity looks today to this messiah and that, this false Christ and that, for its deliverance! All the while, there stood by the cripple the Master, asking, “Wilt thou be made whole?” (John 5:6). This world is one vast pool of Bethesda with its impotent millions looking to movements and men but not to the Master.

It is possible to stand high in religious circles and not get out of kindergarten in the school of Christ; it is possible to hold postgraduate degrees in theology and never make third grade at the feet of the Master. Growing in knowledge is not necessarily growing in grace. One may associate with the Saviour, as Philip did, and still hear Him say, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me…?” (John 14:9). McCheyne wrote: “Men return again and again to the few who have mastered the spiritual secret, whose life has been hid with Christ in God. These are of the oldtime religion, hung to the nails of the cross” – men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross!