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// READ: JOHN 5:7-15 //
7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

MEDITATION:
You need to know how to break tradition that keeps you on the same spot, tradition of stagnation (Verse 9). Be ready to do the unusual, respond to the Lord of the Sabbath and stop keeping to the Lord. There is an unusual. Be ready to carry that bed of stagnation, that bed of impossibility, make up your mind to do the unusual; I mean, the uncommon. Then you will experience a transformation.

PRAYER: Pray for courage to break tradition that keeps you on the same spot.