God loves us and wants what is best for us. He doesn’t want us to run off into the ditches of our own sin. He wants to protect and guide us through this foreign and dangerous land, even when it hurts our feelings.

There is but one person who can truly relate to our difficult and painful situations and his name is Jesus.

Jesus healed a man of his infirmity who had been lying by the pool of Bethesda for 38 years. We are all the man by the pool.

God loves us and wants what is best for us. He doesn’t want us to run off into the ditches of our own sin. He wants to protect and guide us through this foreign and dangerous land, even when it hurts our feelings.