Do you want to get well?

This is an excerpt from the FCA devotional I read for today. It seems to go along well with my last post and like my friend Erin Bayles and her Joyce Meyer desktop devotional calendar, it goes along perfectly with what I have been dealing with in my life lately.

Why would Jesus ask a man who had been paralyzed for 38 years if he wants to get well? You would think it would be a no-brainer. But Jesus wants to know if the man has faith that He can make him well and if he has the will or desire to get well. Also, Jesus often deals in the spiritual realm, rather than merely the physical, so it wasn't just about his body being healed, but his soul as well.

When it comes to spiritual matters this is often the way it is in life; people just really don't want to get well. We say we want to, but we make excuses just like the paralyzed man (John 5:7) about why we are still in the same condition. Until we truly want to get well, and until we realize that Jesus is the only One who can heal us, we will continue life in our sickness.

God wants a relationship with you today. Do you want Him? Really?