Would you like to get well?
Walking the beach this morning, I listened to a sermon centered on this Scripture:
“When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, ‘Would you like to get well?’”
I thought about all the times in my life I have heard this story told as if the man by the pool of Bethesda simply hadn’t been doing enough, that when Jesus asked him this question he simply “made excuses.”
But Jesus was calling the man to do nothing, not to grasp at healing, not to scurry to the pool. Jesus was asking the man to put the full weight of his trust on what the Lord could do. Further, Jesus wasn’t asking the man simply about physical healing. Jesus was calling the man into a deeper understanding of Who He is because when we allow Jesus to heal us, we are made whole - body, mind and spirit.
Yesterday I shared with everyone that I am going to give immunotherapy a try. Yes, I want to be made whole physically, but the reality is this treatment is a temporary fix for a permanent condition. However, if I will allow Jesus to make me whole - body, mind and spirit - I have no fear of the future because come what may, He has already won whatever battle I perceive to be fighting.
More than one person has told me, “I am praying that God will give you complete healing.”
Allow me to tell you with complete assurance, there will come a day when your prayers will be answered. Because yes! I would like to get well, and I look forward to seeing how the Lord will accomplish His purpose for me.
