All because of Love
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” John 4:7
I’ve heard and read this account many times and really I have never understood the significance of it. Jesus went to the well, saw a woman there and asked her for a drink of water. They have a conversation about why Jesus is there and then she goes and tells everyone that He told her all about her life. Then everyone came out to see Jesus and believed that He is the Savior that has come to save the world from sin. I just didn’t get it. What was the big deal with this woman and why did the people believe her?
What I didn’t understand was that the woman was the only person at the well at that time because she didn’t go when the rest of the women in the community went. She was an outcast and the reason was because of her past and her present. She was ashamed and she was considered damaged goods. The next thing I didn’t understand was that in the culture of that day, Jewish people would not even speak to the Samaritan people not to mention their women. This woman certainly didn’t expect Jesus to talk to her and when He did, she was sure it was only to tell her what a bad person she was.
But now, I understand so much better. Because she was probably the least desirable person in that city and the lowest of all their people, that is why God chose her to meet Jesus that day. He loved her despite what she had been through and all that she had done. Jesus told her that she had been married 5 times and now she was living with someone who wasn’t her husband, not to condemn her, but to show her that God loved her right where she was. He wanted to rescue her and bring her into a right relationship with Him and in doing that she could become in the right relationship with her community. It was all because of love.
Today, Jesus loves you right where you are too, only He doesn’t want you to stay there. He wants to pick you up and put you on the road to purpose and fulfilment. His love for people today is the same as it was for that woman so long ago. No matter what has been done to you or what you have done wrong to others, His love wants to rescue you and save you to walk out your days in close connection with Him. Only then will you know what truly living life to the fullest is all about.
Today I want to encourage you to come and drink of the living water of God’s love through the salvation He provided in the sacrifice of Jesus. He carried the guilt and shame of everything you have ever done or gone through and He has a place for you at His side living out the purpose you were created for. Receive His love today and press in so He can lead you in His perfect path of righteousness. It is not hard to turn in His direction, simply reach out with this prayer from your heart and He will reach in and rescue you from all that life has piled on top of you.
Pray: God in heaven, I know I’m a sinner and I need a Savior. I want to turn away from my sinful life to the life You have planned for me. Please forgive my sins, cleanse me from my past, and make me new today. I know Your Son, Jesus died for me. I believe in my heart that You raised Him from the dead. At this very moment, I accept, confess, and proclaim Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior . . . to be Lord of my life from this day forward. I now have a right relationship with God my Father through this salvation in the blood of Jesus. I thank You for giving me Your Holy Spirit to guide me and to empower me to accomplish the things You have planned for my life in Jesus’ name, Amen
Today’s scripture reading: John 4:7-26
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband. Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’
18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”
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