Do You Want To Get Well?

Do You Want To Get Well?

Bible: John 5:1-8

When Jesus saw him lying there … he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” (V.6).

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Does the sun rise in the east? Is the sky blue? Is the ocean salty? Is the atomic weight of cobalt 58.9? Okay, that last one you might only know if you’re a science geek! But the other questions have an obvious answer: yes. In fact, when people ask obvious questions like that, it’s often done with a hint of sarcasm, because they know the answer.

In a similar way, we might wonder if Jesus was being a bit sarcastic when he asked a paralysed man, “Do you want to get well?” (JOHN 5:6). Well, duh! Perhaps, if we were the man, we would have answered: “Are you kidding me?! I’ve wanted to get better for thirty-eight years now.”

But there was no sarcasm in Jesus’ question. Jesus knew the man wanted to get well. He also knew it had probably been a long time since anyone had shown any care for him. Before He made the man better, Jesus wanted to give him reason to hope again. Jesus was inviting the man to trust his disability to Him.

We’re all like the paralysed man. Each of us has things in our lives we dislike or struggle with. Things we’ve stopped hoping will ever change. Jesus also asks us, “Do you want to get well?” He invites us to trust Him and put our confidence and hope in His power and love. If He can make a paralysed man walk, He can do amazing things in our lives too.

JESUS CAN TRANSFORM EVEN THE WORST BITS OF OUR LIVES.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries