Do I Want To Get Well?
John 5:1-15 “Do you want to get well?” Sometimes it is easier to remain as you are, to stick with what you know, instead of getting what you have always dreamed of. Change brings something new and unknown. The man at the pool sat there for 38 years waiting for help to get into the pool of healing. The rest of this passage goes on to show the Jews’ reaction to this man. He’d been at the pool 38 years so you know they knew who he was and yet all they could do when they saw him was tell him he should not be carrying his mat on the Sabbath. He had been healed and not one congratulated him or found joy in what had happened to him. They were so intent on the law that they missed the miracle in front of them. Am I content with that? Am I waiting for someone to come along and help me when all I need is to hear God say, “Get up and walk” and then DO IT!? Am I so stuck in my routines and boundaries that they keep me from great joy? I pray I never get so comfortable with what I know, with my mise