Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,”
the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the
water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down
ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
John 5:3-8 NIV
It sounds like such a harsh question with an obvious answer; but really, it isn't. We know a lot of people who actually seem more comfortable wallowing in what they DON'T have rather than looking forward and working toward happiness.
Do you want to get well?
We moved to Nevada over a year ago and immediately I fell in love with Lake Tahoe.
But, during the course of this summer, I have decided that Lake Tahoe is not just my FAVORITE PLACE, it is my HAPPY PLACE. Lake Tahoe is the place where I GET WELL.
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