Purity Foundation Daily Devotional Monday 7th July 2025 Topic: Divine Transformation 7 Text: John 5:1-9

Purity Foundation Daily Devotional 

Monday 7th July 2025 

Topic: Divine Transformation 7 

Text: John 5:1-9

"Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked." 

Reflection: 

This seems like a pretty ridiculous question. Of course he wanted to get well! He’d been crippled for thirty-eight long years! But as always, Jesus shows deep insight as he interacts with this man. Certainly, it was a great inconvenience to be crippled. 

Unable to walk, to care for oneself, to earn a living. And yet, it was the only life this man knew. As an invalid, and probably therefore a beggar, he at least knew what was expected of him. He had a place in society. He had friends there at the pool. But once he was healed, his world would be completely changed. All the things which others had done for him he would now have to do for himself. He would have to leave the pool and his disabled friends, find a job, make a living, build a new life. Many difficulties and uncertainties lay before him. Now, these are tradeoffs that almost anyone would be happy to make, but tradeoffs nonetheless.

Let me suggest that Christ is putting the same question to you this morning. "Do you want to get well?" Think about it. Think about the one thing in yourself that you would most like to see changed. Not what you desire to see changed in your circumstance, or in some other person, but in yourself. And then ask yourself, do I really want freedom from this sin, this character flaw, this destructive pattern of behavior? Do I really want to grow in this area? Your first response might be to say, "Of course I do! Of course I want to change!" But do you, really? Because change is going to cost you something, and you need to count the cost before you begin the journey. You need to look into your heart and ask, "Why am I doing this? What’s the benefit? What’s the payoff?" And then, "What am I going to lose if I make this change? What is it I don’t want to give up? What am I afraid of?" 

At minimum, change is going to cost you the security of having things stay the same. It may cost you some peace, in the short run. It may cost you some pride. But it will cost. Make sure you’re willing to pay that cost.

Prayer: 

Father, I totally surrender to change in my life for a transformation In Jesus Name 

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