Do you want to get well?
Sometimes we get so attached to our situations and problems. They become our identity so much that inwardly we are not willing to give it up. Maybe it’s that secret sin that you condemn outwardly but inwardly you are so attached to the pleasure you derive from it. Perhaps you are so attached to the sympathy and the attention you get because of your situation that you are not willing to give it up.
As always Jesus does not impose, He is asking a direct question. Sometimes instead of giving a direct answer we are busy giving excuses and trying to explain our situation and why we are in it.
The Lord asks, do you want a job? And instead of simply saying yes or no, you start giving excuses…..well I don’t have the right qualifications, my father never took me to collage, I don’t have a rich uncle to connect me to a good job….
Do you want to be healed? Well….. I don’t have the money to go to hospital, I don’t have someone to take me to hospital, and this sickness is terminal…What all these excuses are exposing is lack of faith in the ability of the God we serve.
A man had been sick for 38 years; this is longer than Jesus had walked this earth (John 5:5-9). Every now and then an angel would come and stir up the waters of the pool called Bethesda, and the first person to get into the waters would be healed.
We don’t know how many times the man had sought healing at the pool but as it is, he was always late for his miracle. Jesus asked him a very simple question, “Do you want to get well?”
Now imagine you are this man, you have been sick for 38 years. Many times you have tried to get to the pool to get your healing but you always come short. Healing means a new way of life. You no longer have to depend on others, no limitations or being secluded. What would your answer be?
Amazingly, the man responds by giving excuses and reasons why he has not been healed, and guess what, he is no different from you and I. He blames someone else for his lack of healing. He says he has no man to help him to the pool when the water is stirred.
The man in the story needed someone to boldly prophesy over his life and then he got his healing without going to the pool.
Now, what was the question again?
Do you want to get well?
Sometimes we get so attached to our situations and problems. They become our identity so much that inwardly we are not willing to give it up. Maybe it’s that secret sin that you condemn outwardly but inwardly you are so attached to the pleasure you derive from it. Perhaps you are so attached to the sympathy and the attention you get because of your situation that you are not willing to give it up.
As always Jesus does not impose, He is asking a direct question. Sometimes instead of giving a direct answer we are busy giving excuses and trying to explain our situation and why we are in it.
The Lord asks, do you want a job? And instead of simply saying yes or no, you start giving excuses…..well I don’t have the right qualifications, my father never took me to collage, I don’t have a rich uncle to connect me to a good job….
Do you want to be healed? Well….. I don’t have the money to go to hospital, I don’t have someone to take me to hospital, and this sickness is terminal…What all these excuses are exposing is lack of faith in the ability of the God we serve.
A man had been sick for 38 years; this is longer than Jesus had walked this earth (John 5:5-9). Every now and then an angel would come and stir up the waters of the pool called Bethesda, and the first person to get into the waters would be healed.
We don’t know how many times the man had sought healing at the pool but as it is, he was always late for his miracle. Jesus asked him a very simple question, “Do you want to get well?”
Now imagine you are this man, you have been sick for 38 years. Many times you have tried to get to the pool to get your healing but you always come short. Healing means a new way of life. You no longer have to depend on others, no limitations or being secluded. What would your answer be?
Amazingly, the man responds by giving excuses and reasons why he has not been healed, and guess what, he is no different from you and I. He blames someone else for his lack of healing. He says he has no man to help him to the pool when the water is stirred.
The man in the story needed someone to boldly prophesy over his life and then he got his healing without going to the pool.
Now, what was the question again?
Do you want to get well?
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