The Bible (or for that matter, any text) offers a different meaning when read in a different context. During one of the days of the PAR training programme, the gospel was that of Jesus curing a man who was seeking help for years. I was thinking: Jesus could very well have assisted the man by the Siloam to get into the waters, when stirred and thus help him regain his health. However, when Jesus entered the scene the whole concept of healing, health, cure took on a different meaning. He offered a totally different means of regaining health.
In life, we are so fixated on certain ways of doing things. Rightly because, the followed path has yielded results. While this is true and good, it is also harmful not to seek newer means of achieving better results. Jesus offers a new model of being healthy and getting cured. Are we willing to try out different means to become better and more meaningful? Or are we happy with doing what was done, the way it was done, merely because it guarantees results? Do we risk?
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