“Well then,” Jesus responds, ignoring his whining, “Get
up, man! Roll up your sleeping mat; pick
it up and begin to walk. You are healed!”
John 5:8 EFP
Jesus, and the Gracious Father he came
to reveal, created us to be healthy and whole.
Sin and all its side-effects have marred our world, our lives, our
marriages, our hearts. We are the result
of our original parents’ misguided choice and our life-long pattern of
imitating their folly. Sin has left us
in a pathetic state of atrophy—spiritual, mental, and physical. It doesn’t really matter what kind of malady
has done its dirty deed on us; we are squirming in our own filthy and helpless
condition.
Is it that easy though? Is a word from the Word sufficient to bring me
healing? It seems clear from this story
that Jesus is anything but unwilling and unable to heal. The weakness and self-defeating mindset comes
from me. Jesus has unsurpassed power
behind his words. “Get up!” he says to
me. “I created you to walk.” “I don’t care how you got here or why you are
still here, I just know that I am here at my Father’s request and you were made
for walking!” All that remains to be
heard is the crippled man’s—and my response to God’s enabling.
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