Do You Want To Get Well?

I was reading in John 5 today and there are a few thoughts that jumped out at me that I can not ignore.


John 5:1-9, "Some time 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." Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

I just want to share a couple of my thoughts:
  • By Jesus asking the man did he want to get well tells me that our "wellness" depends on our desire for wholeness.
  • Did this man find comfort in his sickness? Had he built his world around it?
  • How did he get to the pool everyday? Who carried him? I do not want to be friends with those people. I do not need people to carry me to the pool, but to the One who stirs the pool. Surround yourself with people that will carry you to Jesus.
  • Was the man looking for the pool to bring his healing or God. How many times do we looking for our healing from every other source except God.
  • "Get up!" It does not say that Jesus picked him up, or even helped him up. He told them to get up, and HE DID!
  • When God speaks healing we can either lay there and remain sick, or get up and walk in the Words of Jesus.

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