“The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the
city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever
I did: is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came unto
him” (John 4:28-30 KJV).
I have been thinking about the woman that Jesus meant
at the well in Samaria lately. I wonder if God had ever tugged on her heart
before and I wonder if she shut Him down. I wonder if her reply to God’s promptings
was that she was not good enough or that she needed to get her life together before
she served Him. I wonder what stressful things were on her mind the day that
she planned to go to the well and I wonder if that walk was her “me” time.
The beautiful thing about the woman at the well is
that she is like both you and me. I love that she was honest with Jesus and didn’t
try to sugarcoat her life style. I love that she was receptive to Jesus and
that she asked Him questions. I also love that she took what she had learned
and was not afraid to present it to the very people who may have judged her
life choices.
Sometimes we make mistakes when we don’t understand
the call on our lives. This woman was called to men, but she didn’t know it.
Her beauty was meant to draw men unto God, but instead, her misunderstanding of
this made her draw men unto herself. There are instances in which we mistake what
is supposed to be ministry and begin a relationship instead.
The people that talked about the woman at the well didn’t
know that she was an evangelist. They didn’t know that God would get glory from
the very lifestyle that she lived in front of them, and they didn’t know that
in God’s eyes, she was a woman of God too.
The marvelous thing about Jesus is that He waited for
the woman to come to the well and He meant her where she was at that time in
her life. She did not fight her way to church because the society that she
lived in already judged her. She may have thought about it, but saw the “church
folks” and changed her mind.
The woman at the well knew about Jesus, but she was naïve
to the fact that Jesus knew about her too. Sometimes we forget that Jesus knows
us. We forget that He can meet us in the midst of any situation and we forget
that He can change our lives in an instant.
The woman that went to the well to draw water for her
household was not the same woman who left the well that day. She was changed.
She walked away from Jesus as an evangelist and as a woman of God that He would
use immediately for His glory. That woman left shame at the well. She left
those labels that people put on her, at the well. She left defeat and the mediocrity
at the well and she picked up confidence, boldness, and the fire of God.
I don’t know about you, but I want to be like the
woman at the well. I want to be honest with Jesus and I want my whole life to
be changed just from being in His presence.
Lord, In Jesus name, I pray to take the assignment
that you have given me as seriously as Jesus did. Jesus was intentional about
going through Samaria and He understood the importance of the day, although He
was tired. Lord, I pray to receive you as the woman at the well did. This woman
had to get saved on that day and she had to receive the gospel of Jesus Christ because
there were souls attached to her testimony. Lord, I pray to be bold, confident,
and on fire for Jesus Christ. I pray to leave condemnation, all my insecurities,
and all my plans at your feet so that I can pick up my destiny, my purpose, and
swift obedience to do the will of my Heavenly Father. I pray to walk in the
fact that despite my past, I am a woman of God, In Jesus name, Amen.
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