Read John 5:1-9 with your family.

Everyone wants to be healed, right? Everyone wants to be made better and to not be sick or not have body parts that do not work like everyone else, right?

It seems a strange question. Of course everyone wants a strong, healthy body. That is what we all think.

But Jesus’ question was more important. It was not simply ‘do you want to be healthy’, but ‘do you want what comes after becoming healthy, with all the responsibilities to take care of yourself, and you not having others take care of you anymore’. That is a harder question.

Do we want to change from what we know and stop having the reasons we have that keep us from doing the work God asked us to do? Are we prepared to be responsible for taking care of others and not always thinking about ourselves first?

We have to think about that question.