Hi Friendly people,
This Chapter is about a broken woman who is ministered to by Jesus in a personal dialogue. He asks her for a drink at the well of Jacob and offers her the gift of life, Himself. He planned this carefully knowing the issues of her heart about the Jews and the Samaritans. She has issues of truth in the area of worship so He positions Himself at the well and dialogues about living water. She has lost herself in several relationships trying to fill her emptiness and He is coming to offer her truth that will fill her forever! Notice how He refocuses her when she goes back to the "Jews" issue. We have our own prejudices and misconceptions that Christ has to straighten out in us, too. Could we be brave enough to dialogue with Him; to let Him shine some of that light on us and illuminate the darkness?
John 4
V 7. At Jacobs well in Sychar, Samaria, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman and asks her, "Will you give me a drink?"
V 9. She replies, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?"
V10. "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
V 11. "Sir, the woman said, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?"
V12. "Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
V13. Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. ( The Message) The living water I give will be an artisan spring within, gushing fountains of endless life."
V15. The woman says to Him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
V16. He tells her, "Go, call your husband and come back."
V17. "I have no husband, she replied." Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband . The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."
V19. "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
V20 "Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
V21. Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. ( Contemporary English Version) "But a time is coming, and it is already here!" Even now the true worshippers are being led by the Spirit to worship the Father according to the truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking to worship Him."
V24 "God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth."
V25. The woman said, "I know that Messiah is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us."
V26. Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am He."
V27. Just then His disciples returned and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. But no one asked why.
V28. Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
V29. "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
V30. They came out of the town and made their way toward Him.
V39. Many Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all the things that I have done."
V41 Many more believed because of His own words.
This woman must have been very remarkable. She was a sinful person yet the city still respected her words enough to see what this man at the well was all about. She was chosen by Jesus to bring His message to a city and most of the that city was converted because of her testimony. I think we all could bury our guilt and shame and get on with the business of the kingdom! She did!
Never Give Up, Never Give In
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