Are you a woman at the well? I know I am. I am like the woman who Jesus met at the well.
A woman who had been married several times and a woman who was currently with a man that she wasn’t married too.
This well is called Jacobs Well, which is counted as a Christian Holy site. In Johns gospel the well seems to hint at a deeper reading. Jesus as the Bridegroom of Israel who comes to reunite the divided tribes through a spiritual union with him, the long-awaited Messiah.
The woman at the well was a Samaritan woman. During that time era the Jews did not mix with the Samaritan people. This woman being married many times was considered a vile sinner.
Jesus speaks to her regardless of her past and her social standing. Jesus says to her. “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water that I shall give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life. So, the woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will never thirst, nor come here to draw.
The woman believed what Jesus was saying to her.
That day, Jesus goes on to tell her everything that she ever did. He told her to go call her husband, she tells the Lord, I have no husband. Jesus says you are right in saying, I have no husband, for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband.
Jesus had filled this woman with living water, she was so excited that she left her water pot. That day, she was so filled and so happy that she went into the city and told the men, come see a man who told me all things I ever did. John 4:28-29. She, being a vile woman of the city carried the message to men. Many believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified.
Note: This woman carried the message. John 4:39
When we think we have really messed up and there is no way that the Lord could ever use us. This story reflects one of the greatest stories, showing Gods love and mercy for us. It doesn’t matter where we have been or how messed up, we have become. Jesus can still use us to carry a message and testify of all that he does for us.
Jesus meets us at the well. He doesn’t care what we have done, he wants us all to be united with him. He meets us exactly where we are and fills us with his spirit. There is not one that he wants lost.
This song comes to my mind – It is no secret what God can do. What he’ll do for others he’ll do for you, with arms wide open he will start anew. It is no secret what God can do.
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John 4:13-14
Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.
Author: Daphne Pendley