Get Up and Walk

While working on yesterday’s blog my Pandora radio was playing and one of my favorite songs was encouraging me to write every word.  So I thought I’d post it here for you just in case you need it.

This is one I’ve downloaded onto my phone, I’ve been singing this song for years now.  Jesus asked a man in the Bible “Do you want to be made well?”  This is a powerful question.  Most of us do not.  So when I get down in the dumps – I play this song and imagine Jesus asking me if I want to be made well………… the answer is YES.

John 5:1-18 5 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda,[a] having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.[b] 5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.

“Get Up and Walk” by Bethany Dillon

I have got no one to blame Except if that someone’s me I washed my hands, but just the same My eyes confess for me I come in filthy rags You know I’m guilty

I wake up almost every night Saying Your name What I would give to walk in the light But what I hide has made me lame My face down on the ground I wait to hear the healing sound

You break through my deafness Swing open the curtain And I find the courage to get up and walk I forget my weakness For You’ve answered my loneliness And through the mud on my eyes I can see my Hope has come

You’ll have to show me where to go It’s been so long since I’ve used my feet I got up today a cripple And now I’m dancing So let the power of Your move Not stop with what I can see

I couldn’t walk I couldn’t sing I couldn’t love until You found me

Here is is on youtube by an all female a cappella group

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wu0IjwJj1g