Editor's Note: This month, we continue a series of For Your Soul columns based on Keri Wyatt Kent's devotional book Oxygen: Deep Breathing for the Soul. Read through the Bible passage slowly, noticing words or phrases that strike you. As you read this story of attitude toward healing, pay attention to areas of your life that run parallel to what happens to the disabled man. After you've read the passage and the insightful reflection that follows it, spend time praying or journaling your response to God's word. You will find it very difficult to have no response.

John 5:1-15 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that ...

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