Ever Turn Down Help?

Sounds like a dumb question I know! On a YouTube video, a young boy comes across a small sheep stuck headfirst in a long narrow trench which has been dug beside a road. The boy uses his hands and a belt around the leg of the sheep to rescue the trapped sheep.

Immediately on being set free, the sheep takes a few stumbling steps, and then a couple of joyful leaps … only to land headfirst back in the same trench further along the road. The audio then records then sheep baaing helplessly after finding itself right back in the same condition.

It's not so funny when people do similar things is it? In John's Gospel, read story here there's a story of a guy who had been in a tough spot for a very long time, almost 40 years. His whole adult life. Waiting for help. One day Jesus asked this guy, "Friend, do you want to get well?"

What a dumb question? But maybe he, like you and me, don't really want to get well? Consider how he'd lose all the attention of others. No more pity parties and look how tough i have it, you won't believe what so & so did to me? Or now he'd have to fend for himself. Jesus told the man to get up and walk and take his stuff with him, and he did that, but now he'd have to keep doing this. He had clearly gotten use to a life of blaming others, who would he have to blame now that he was made whole?

Do you want Jesus to help you get well? That's an honest question we all would do well to ask ourselves. For the implications of the answer will determine the direction our life takes.

Do you want to be better? Find help? What might Jesus say to you to do in order for your life to go in a better direction? See You on Sunday Friend!

Pastor Mike

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