5/9/2025 Daily Devotion: Do you want to be healed?

John 5:6-9 - “When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.”

The Question: Do you want to be healed?

• This man had been lying by this pool for THIRTY EIGHT years … not getting healed.

• He had reasonable excuses and pretty valid reasons for why he was just lying there, not healed.

• But now JESUS was there … and I absolutely love Jesus’ question to this man … “Do you want to be healed?”

• On the surface, this seems like a pretty silly question, right? … Of course he wants to be healed! That’s why he’s here! … right?

The Answer: I’m a victim of my circumstance.

• We see by this man’s answer that he had actually become more focused on blaming his circumstances & the people around him than actually being healed.

• Jesus wants to talk about healing and this man can only discuss healing from the vantage point of why he can’t be healed.

• Understandable from man’s point of view … but JESUS. CHANGES. EVERYTHING.

The Solution: GO BE HEALED

• Jesus doesn’t require the man to answer the question correctly … He provides the true solution … Get up. Go!

• Jesus immediately healed the man … but the man still had to get up and actually walk!

• He allowed the FREEDOM that Jesus provided to become his identity … overcoming the brokenness, overcoming the blame … TRANSFORMING him from a victim to a victor!

You & I are saddled with invalid, sin-soaked hearts, limited & burdened by the sinful desires of our flesh … when JESUS shows up!

• If you are a Christian … are you LIVING HEALED? Too many of us still identify our selves with our struggles … we have reasons why we are the way we are!

• I’m anxious … but I have reasons. I’m angry … but I have reasons. I work too much … but I have reasons. I don’t work enough … but I have reasons. I give into my desires … but I have reasons. I’m a loner … but I have reasons. I’m depressed … but I have reasons. I’m in turmoil … but I have reasons. I’m consumed by doubt … but I have reasons.

We are all broken when we meet Jesus … but He calls us to BE HEALED in Him!

• He calls us to be TRANSFORMED in Him!

• Let Him overcome the weakness in you. Let Him overcome the selfishness in you. Let Him overcome the victim in you. … BE VICTORIOUS IN CHRIST!

Do. Not. Stay. Broken.

• Don’t sit in your broken Hallelujah … offer it up and then go BE HEALED.