Tuesday of the 4th Week of Lent

I love this exchange between Jesus and the ill man in the gospel today. "Do you want to be well?" (John 5:6) Jesus asks a simple, direct question, a question we would love for Him to ask us, who are borken, weak, and in need of healing. The man's answer fits perfectly what many of us say to God. "Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me," (John 5:7). How often do we tell Jesus something similar? "Jesus I've tried before, it just doesn't work. There's no way, but this one I see before me, and it just doesn't work."
See, Jesus wants to bring us healing. He wants to drastically change our lives, like he did the ill man, by removing those things that prevent us from spiritually walking and becoming the saints He desires us to be. And I know I've said this before, and I will surley say it agian, we can't put God in a box. The only way the sick man knew to be healed was to in the pool. We too can get fixed on one way for us to be healed. But God knows everything. He see everything. He knows best how to bring healing. For the ill man, all He had to do was speak, an option the man never knew was afforded him.
Jesus wishes to heal us, but have to let the Divine Physican do His work and not be back seat surgeons.