Do You Want to Get Well?
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Do You Want to Get Well?
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This encounter between Jesus and an invalid man happened at a healing pool, where the man in question had been coming daily for 38 years, waiting his turn for some miracle. He never (apparently) asked for help or tried doing anything except lying there waiting, miserable and self-pitying.
After listening to his excuses, Jesus didn't scold him but commanded him to take up his mat and walk.
We are told in the verse that follows that the man "at once picked up his mat and walked."
How many of us are similar to that man? We lie here in our misery, waiting for someone to help us, but never picking ourselves up and taking action to walk out of our misery, to break that bad habit that we have worn for years, to change directions, to choose a new path.
Jesus can and will help us to overcome our afflictions, but we must change, we must get up and walk away from our hurts, habits, and hangups. Jesus will help, but he expects us to do our part. When we do, like the invalid man, who "at once picked up his mat and walked," we can walk too!
We can walk away from excuses, from self-pity, from fear, with Jesus' help.
If you need Jesus' help in your life, please pray with me…
PrayerDear God, if I have things I need to change in my life, please show me the way. Help me to change my habits and to pick myself up and walk a new way. In Jesus' name we pray. AMEN!
This devotional was written and read by Bernice Howard.
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