Want to be well?

In John 5:6 Jesus saw a man who had been an invalid for 38 years. He asked the man: "Do you want to get well?" It seems like a silly question, doesn't it? It seems so obvious that the man would want to be helaed and would know Jesus is the one who can do it. But instead, the guy starts whining about how other people always hop in the water ahead of him. He had bought into a local myth that whenever the water would be "stirred," the first person into the pool would be healed. In other words, he was putting his faith in the wrong thing.

I think that we often do the same thing. We know in our heads that we can trust God, but we make choices that show that we trust our own ideas even more. Maybe we're not as smart as we think we are. Maybe we need to go "all in" and stop being half-hearted. We'll never find out what God can do in our lives until we trust Him completely. And when we do that, He's promised to always meet us where we are and start growing us to become who He wants us to be.