John 5:1-7 Sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

I took a guy to the bus station today. He was headed to L.A. California, going back home, he said. I don’t have anyone here and I’m scared to death of tornadoes!

I can’t imagine not having family and friends nearby, can you?

The truth is that there are people everywhere that we either know or cross paths with that have no one to help them. While it may be true that some of them have used up family and friends, the stark reality of their lives is, they have “no one”.

I wonder what would happen if I ran into one of them?

Lord Jesus, this is Dennis, thank you for all my family and all my friends. I know that they are a gift from You.

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