Do you want to be made well?

Can't imagine anyone answering No to that question can you?  So, why ask the question in the first place?

Because some folks really don't want to be made well.  Some folks prefer the devil they know to the possibility of a life without a devil at all.  "I would love to have a happy family but there is no way I'm forgiving Jane for ......" 

When we are made well we will need to leave behind all kinds of things: the attention we get for our illness, the self-righteous attitude we humor because 'we are right', the excuses we give for not helping a friend, the insistence that we must be treated differently.

So Jesus asks, "Do you want to be made well?"  What is your answer?