“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.”
“...How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!”
(Mark 2:17; John 5:6; John 5:40; Matt. 23:37)
At the ‘end of the day’...as we like to say, when we’ve laid aside all the commentaries and devotionals and turned off all the devices that funnel countless voices into our heads; and when we have nothing else to add to our theological debates in an attempt to narrow the divide of our doctrinal differences, there really are only two pressing questions that each one of us need to be confronted with: “Do you want to be made well?”...and what does it mean to be ‘willing’... and to truly 'come to Jesus’?
This you can be sure of...’coming to Jesus’ involves just a tad bit more than just saying ...’Lord, Lord’. (Matt. 7:1; Luke 6:46; 14:25-33). And...it is not His will for any ...to perish, but for all to come to repentance" (2 Pet. 3:9; Luke 13:1-5)
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