WANT TO GET WELL?
(JOHN 5:5-6 )
THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN THERE WHO HAD SUFFERED WITH A DEEP-SEATED AND LINGERING DISORDER FOR THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS. WHEN JESUS NOTICED HIM LYING THERE [HELPLESS], KNOWING THAT HE HAD ALREADY BEEN A LONG TIME IN THAT CONDITION, HE SAID TO HIM, DO YOU WANT TO BECOME WELL?
[ARE YOU REALLY IN EARNEST ABOUT GETTING WELL?]
Isn't this an amazing question for Jesus to ask this poor man who had been sick for thirty-eight long years: "Do you really want to become well?" That is the Lord's question to each of us as well.
Do you know there are people who really don't want to get well? They only want to talk about their problem. Are you one of those people problem? Do you really want to get well, or do you just want to talk about your problem. Sometimes people get addicted to having a problem. It becomes their identity, their life. It defines everything they think and say and do. All their being is centered around that particular problem.
If you have a "deep-seated and lingering disorder," the Lord wants you to know that it does not have to be the central focal point of your entire existence. He wants you to trust Him and cooperate with Him as He leads you to victory over that problem one step at a time.
Whatever our problem may be, God has promised to meet our need and to repay us for our loss. Facing truth is the key to unlock prison doors that may have held us in bondage.
God yearns to see you become all that He has planned for you to be.
Joyce Meyer
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