Chapter 4 – the witness
of the Samaritan Woman at the well:
verse 29, “Come and see a man who told me all the things I have done;
this is not the Christ, is it?”
Generally, people think that they cannot come to God for one
of two reasons: either they can’t
forgive God for something that has happened in their life for which they blame
Him; or they believe God could never forgive them for what they’ve done. The story of the Samaritan woman is a case
of the latter, but Jesus met her and will meet you:
·
It is a time of the day when no one will be at
the well, except a woman who wants to avoid all those who know her and scorn
her. She is not comfortable with the
choices she’s made.
·
Jesus is there to meet her and engage her, even
though she is a woman, a Samaritan, an outcast of the town who has been married
5 times previously and is now living with a man who is not her husband.
·
Jesus offers to quench the thirst that this
well, her husbands, her current live-in and nothing or no one else have been
able to satisfy. “Everyone who drinks of
this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give
him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him
a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
4:13b-14
·
Jesus revealed to her that he was the Messiah
and she was so excited that she left her bucket, never gave Jesus the drink He
had asked for, and ran back to the town to tell the others about Him!
Though were not specifically told, from her reaction, it’s
likely she believed in Jesus, was forgiven of her sins and found a satisfaction
that she had never known. How about you?
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