Stand Up, Take Your Woes, And Walk

Stand Up, Take Your Woes, And Walk Sometimes all it takes is for us to respond, “I want to be made well.” Instead, much of the time our focus is on what’s against us. We may believe we have no one to help to get to the next step. We might feel as though we are an outcast even in our own family. A great part of what we feel is because of how we think. Jesus wants us to be made well. Jesus calls us to call upon Him. Stand Up. Take your woes and walk toward Jesus. Jesus is waiting for you. John5:1-3,5-9 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralysed. 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?’ The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Stand up, take your mat and walk.’ At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.