What is your “why”? The compelling higher purpose that inspires us and acts as the source of all we do – Simon Sinek “Start with Why”
John 5:1-3 NLT – Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. 2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda,[a] with five covered porches. 3 Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.
John 5:5 NLT – One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.
What is your “Why?” Hope is both the easiest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustain, hope must remain. – Erik Erickson
John 5:6 NLT – When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
John 5:7 NLT – “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.”
John 5:8-9 NLT – Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,
John 5:13 NLT – The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.
