06/27/2026
It's What Jesus Does With the Pieces.
For years I thought my testimony was my pain.
I thought my story was about anxiety, fear, procrastination, self-doubt, and all the reasons I couldn't move forward. Like the man at Bethesda (John 5:2-9), I sat beside my own pool, hoping something in this world would finally change me. I waited for the right opportunity, the right feeling, the right moment, believing that if life would just shift a little, I could finally become the person God created me to be.
But I was looking to the water in hope.
Jesus was standing beside me.
The pool became my distraction. It became the place where I rehearsed my excuses instead of responding to Christ's invitation.
Then Jesus asked a question that still echoes today:
"Do you want to be made well?"
He wasn't asking if I wanted my circumstances to change.
He was asking whether I was willing to trust Him enough to leave the place where I had become comfortable in my sorrow.
Because healing requires movement.
Not movement toward the pool.
Movement toward Christ.
I realized my testimony was never supposed to magnify the years I spent sitting beside the water. My testimony was always meant to magnify the Savior who took my hand and led me away from it.
The world says to keep revisiting your brokenness.
Jesus says, "Rise."
The world tells us to define ourselves by what happened to us.
Jesus gives us a new identity, a new mindset, and freedom.
The world teaches us to keep searching for another pool.
Jesus says, "I am the Living Water."
The timid, fearful version of me wanted to stay where it felt familiar. But courage is not something I found within myself. Courage began the moment I trusted the One who was calling me to stand.
That is what fruit looks like.
Fruit is not pretending we were never broken.
Fruit is what grows after we place every broken piece into the hands of the Master.
A testimony is not about what broke you.
A testimony is about what Jesus did with the pieces.
I don't want people to remember the girl who sat beside the pool.
I want them to see the woman who took the hand of Christ and took up her cross.
Because the water never changed me.
Jesus did.
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