the best questions point to the Answer

The Word for today:
John 5:1-29

Mark this: 5:6--

"Do you want to get well?"

Q. Why would Jesus ask such a thing when the answer is so obvious?
A. Because the answer is so obvious!
Q. What?
A. Jesus wanted the man to see the obvious answer. Jesus knew the man wanted to be healed. Jesus wanted the man to know how.
Q. What do you mean?
A. Let's say you walk by the park and a bunch of boys are playing a spirited game of football. They are giving it everything they have, but they are getting nowhere. Suppose you go up to their huddle and say, "You want to win?" Those boys know that you can see they want to win. So they don't reply, 'Yes,' or 'No.' They wait expectantly for you to show them how. So you draw up a play in the dirt.
Q. I get it, I think.
A. Look at the man's answer. He doesn't say, "Yes, of course I want to get well." He starts talking about the way to get well: "I have no one to help me into the pool."
Q. I've got it! So Jesus shows the man that he--Jesus--is the way to get well, by saying, "Pick up your mat and walk."
A. Right.
Q. Jesus is the plan--the play, so to speak, that God drew up in the dirt! The man said he had no one to help, but he was wrong. He had Jesus.
A. Bingo!

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Are you waiting around for something to happen, for a stirring in the water?
Forget it.

Do you think there's no one to help?
Think again.

Do you want to get well?
The best questions point to the Answer.