The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well. - John 5:15
Are we like the crippled man at the edge of the pool of Bethesda? It is almost as if he didn't want to be healed. When Jesus asks him if he would like to be healed, instead of saying "yes" he answers that nobody will help him to the pool; when confronted by the Jews in the temple for carrying his mat, he says that he was told to do so by someone else; and when he discovers that it was Jesus who cured him he immediately goes and tells the Jews that Jesus did it. Did he say it because he was praising God for his cure? Or, was it more out of fear of what the Jews might do to him? We too need to reflect on our relationship to God - do we really want God to step in and change our lives? Are we ready to affirm God's action in our lives, or are we afraid that we might offend others?
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