Do You Want to Get Well?

 ⁶ 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?”

⁷ “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.” -John 5:6-7

Do you want to get well?  That was the question Jesus asked. The answer to illness and disease was standing in front of this broken man asking if he wanted healing.  Without answering him directly, the man explains how he has tried to receive curing continuously, with no success.

Jesus immediately heals him and tells him to take up his mat and go home.   In an instant. 38 years of suffering, gone.  With a simply question, the answer comes. 

Let me ask you, “Do you want to get well?”  What suffering are you enduring?  It may or may not be a physical illness or disease.  Perhaps you suffer from depression, anxiety, loneliness, addiction, fear, anger, shame, guilt, hopelessness or anything else.  

The answer is standing in front of you waiting for you to pour out your heart to him.  Jesus still heals today.  He is still able to tell you to, “Take up your mat and go home.”