John 5:6–8
“When Jesus saw him lying there and learned 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…’
Then Jesus said to him, ‘Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.’”

TL;DR:

Stop rehearsing excuses and start receiving healing. Jesus asks you today, “Do you want to get well?” If so—get up, pick up your mat, and walk.

The man at the pool had been stuck for 38 years—stuck in disappointment, excuses, and hopelessness. Jesus didn’t ask him how long he’d been sick. He didn’t ask him to justify his condition.
He asked one simple, piercing question:

“Do you want to get well?”

That question exposes the places where you grow comfortable in your pain, your habits, your sin, or your broken patterns. Sometimes you stop trying because trying feels too painful. Sometimes the excuse becomes easier than the effort.

I lived this before I quit drinking.
I had excuses ready for every situation—
It’s too hard.
It won’t work anyway.
I’m too far gone.
Someone else has it easier.

But Jesus didn’t ask the man,
“Why haven’t you gotten into the water?”
He simply said:

“Get up.”
“Pick up your mat.”
“Walk.”

Healing begins the moment you decide to stop living in excuses and start living in obedience. His strength fills the place where your strength ends. His power carries you where your willpower can’t.

Whatever your “mat” is today—fear, addiction, a toxic relationship, shame, self-pity, bitterness, physical illness—Jesus is still speaking the same words:

Get up.
Pick it up.
Walk forward into the life I’m giving you.

You don’t need the pool.
You need the Savior who stands beside you.

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