THANKFUL

Chatting with Jesus

Monday, September 25, 2023

Lord, she didn’t know it. The truth is, few know it. I didn’t know it until you turned on the light in my heart.

John the apostle recorded your encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. This lady’s life choices turned her life into a trainwreck. The town’s women shunned her. The men ridiculed her as a loose woman. The social outcasts even considered her a pariah. Apparently, to avoid people, she walked to the well for water during the heat of the day instead of in the cool of the morning with the other women.

While you sat on your glorious throne in the courts of Heaven, you set a divine appointment to meet this woman at the well. You sat at the well, anticipating her coming. Seeing you, she anticipated your disdain. You offered her love and acceptance. All she could offer was distrust and rejection.

Lord, you got right to the point of her need. “If you knew the gift God has for you, and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water” (John 4:9, 10).

A religious woman because of the Samaritan culture, she didn’t know the gift God had for her if she would only ask. She believed salvation must be earned. She had little to no hope since she had a lengthy sin rap sheet. She knew the Messiah would come someday but felt no connection—until her divine appointment.

Lord, you explained your gift of salvation is free. It’s futile working to earn our salvation. We simply put our trust in you, Jesus, and believe you are who you say you are, and you will do what you say you will do. By accepting your gift, we become “living water,” a new person.

So radical her transformation, this once shunned but now credible woman played a significant role in leading her town to salvation.

Jesus, thank you for setting for each of us a divine appointment to accept your gift and become “living waters,” and change our world. Amen.