Are you content to stay in your safety bubble and not venture out of your comfort zone? Before Jesus healed the lame man in John 5, he asked him if he WANTED to get well. The man said to Jesus, “I can’t.” He said he had no one to put him in the healing waters. Sometimes, it’s just easier to stay right where we are and wallow in our self-pity and excuses. There’s responsibility and work to be done when we are well and it’s hard. Has God opened doors for you, laid out a plan for you, taken away an obstacle that has been holding you back? When he heals us, either physically or spiritually, we have to “get up, take our mat and walk.”

John 5: 6-8
6 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him,“Would you like to get well?” 7 “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.” 8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”