Living Water

Put yourself in the sandals of the Samaritan woman who met Jesus at Jacob’s Well.

Your fellow town-folk know of your sins. Word got out. And in your shame, and in their scorn, you become a social outcast. You’d rather not face the upturned noses, and the furrowed eyebrows. So, you draw your water in the heat of the day instead of the cool of the morning, when no one else would come to the well for water.

Like the town-folk, Jesus also knows everything about you. He knows your past sins. He knows your current sins. He even knows your future sins!

But with Jesus it is different. No upturned nose. No furrowed eyebrow. 

And He has met you where you are at—alone in the heat of day, hiding from awkward and painful interactions.

And Jesus doesn’t reject you, even though He knows everything about you. He has a conversation. He listens. He asks questions. He offers truth.

And instead of CONDEMNATION, you experience KINDNESS, maybe for the first time in many, many years—even with the shocking realization that He is Prophet and Messiah.

So, question: What do you do now?

(a) Run in terror?

Or (b) run into town to tell everyone about Jesus!?

The Samaritan woman chose rightly, becoming the first evangelist of the Gospel to the Samaritans and launching a city–wide revival that turned their world upside down.