Monday: Do you want to be made well?

Read John 5:2-9a.

One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.  When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" John 5:5-6

Our reading today shares the story of a woman's struggle with alcoholism.  There is a lot of pain around this disease with the individual, their family, their co-workers, and their friends.  It is so difficult to know what to do for someone who struggles with this.  We want to help but Jesus' question is forthright for any of us who struggle with any brokenness in our lives.  Do you want to be made well?

Wholeness and restoration perhaps can bring healing for us when we start asking different questions.  I liked what Bill Wilson wrote in today's devotion.  "I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes."