If your radio or television, computer or mobile phone tomorrow, you can access news from around the world. You can vote in China, in Paris or Australia in a few minutes to listen. Events that took place just hours ago to put thousands of miles to inform us with an alarming rate. What a wonderful time in which we live.
We feel blessed by technological advances that have allowed us to access the information too late. Theyliving in the days of Christ was not so lucky. There were no radios, telephones or newspapers. They had no computers or fax to transmit information. But what they did was the city too. One of the best places for them the news was good. People gather every day to fetch water and wait for the events of the world, as they went from mouth to mouth. The well was a very important place in Biblical times.
We stop at one of these sourcesdays and listen to a specific dialogue takes place in a well. This can also be called Jacob's well and that is in Samaria, which is located near the small town of Sychar. If we are so invisible, we see Jesus and his disciples approach. Jesus looks a bit 'sloppy and tired, and when it comes to the good man, sitting on the curb to rest. He sends his disciples into town to buy lunch.
Not long after, we saw a woman near the hole. Who am I and why his visitsin this moment? We know that it was common for women Sicar a visit to the well at noon. Are usually early morning or late at night, when it was cooler to get water and have a verbal exchange with friends and neighbors. Then why did this woman come the time when he knew it would probably be alone?
After further investigation, we realized that we know of this woman. He was a Samaritan, and according to the news of the city, is a womanquestionable character. After all, his five failed marriages, and in this moment is living with a man not her husband. We suspect that this particular time of day to visit as a means to prevent women who seem to have chosen his condescension. Now we see this as a good Samaritan comes up and meet Jesus.
I think it's important to understand that this meeting between the Samaritan woman and Jesus was not a coincidence. This did not happen byrandom, but there is a divine plan at this meeting. We know because we read in John 4:4 Jesus said: "I must go, Samaria." It was not his usual route. I also remember that Jews are in possession of a hostile attitude toward the Samaritans and has no contact with them whatsoever. The Jews felt polluted and desecrated, if their feet touch the ground in Samaria. Therefore, they do not pass through Samaria to Galilee, which is shorter, choose the longer route. BecauseJesus was a Jew, is the direct route?
Was through Samaria, because the Samaritan woman was there. It is not optional. This woman needed something that only Jesus could provide. There are no accidents in the program of God. He never makes a mistake. He is the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, immutable God He knows what we will say before you say it. He knows what we will do before us. He knows where we were, and he knows where to go. He knows what's goinghappen before it happened, and he knows the outcome before it happens.
As viewers, we receive Christ's light-handed approach to the woman. He starts the conversation by asking some 'water to drink. The woman is quick to respond: "How can you ask me to drink, because Jews do not associate with Samaritans?" But Jesus breaks the boundaries of race. You may be a Samaritan, despised for his people, but for him, she is a soul in need, a desire for a better life.
As we observe this scene,We began to realize and understand that, after Jesus, there is no division. There is no east or west, north or south. There is neither Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, drug addict or alcoholic, homosexual or heterosexual. Following Jesus is the only needy souls desire for a better life.
The worst offenders are often long for a better life. They have realized that sin leads to unhappiness and discontent. They yearn for something that truly satisfies – who had long before Christ.
I amthe memory of Alexander Black, who wrote a novel, the great desire (Harper and Row, 1919), a young man who tries to write a novel. The young writer was off in a big city with a dream of a book that could explain life itself, which will help people discover who they really are and what they really wanted in life. Then he started on one side with the title of Great, the great desire. His research method was simple. Would randomly stop people on the street and ask them:this question: "What do you want in life?"
As one might expect that all types of responses. Some would say a world where people do stupid questions. Others play games of questions and answers with the concepts ridiculous. But there are many people who want to express itself. When they hear what people think, was the desire of their hearts, so the author must push the issue because they want to ask what it was that they had described. He pushedto focus on what has been the driving force in their lives, and ultimately found the bottom line is always the same. Great desire, the desire end, the foundation on which all the others want the rest, is really a desire to see God to know God, because God for the experience. After Jesus, only the poor desire for a better life.
When Jesus told the Samaritan woman: "If you are a gift from God and know who is asking you a drink, he would have asked, and he would have given youliving water. "Next, he started working for an expert surgeon. When he tells her about the water of life, crying" give me this so I can never drink. "She does not see Jesus in this moment as a savior, but only as one who could give something. But Jesus is the true surgeon of the soul. His technique of communication. First, he must probe the cancer of sin and the old to bring this woman the burden of what is wrong in his life feel. prontuit because the commands, "Go call your husband."The Samaritan frankly admitted that she is not a man possessed, and Jesus praised for his honesty and truth. As Jesus speaks to her, expresses the deep desire of his heart. Jesus revealed to her and immediately opened her heart to him, Jesus walks in order to transform and save.
At the next see her, we know that his old life of sin has left, leaving the pan with water from the well and walk the streets of Sicar shouted: "Come see a man who told me allthings. "
These natural changes are those who trust in Jesus Christ. When you arrive at your life, he moves to a new creature. This woman had a spirit filled servant. His heart is happy, and gave his testimony to anyone who would listen.
Well, Scripture continues to tell us that the disciples returned from grocery and Jesus tells them that it was nothing to eat, not want. She was confused and thought to himself, as he had already eaten. Jesus said to them:"I have to eat, what we do not know. My food is to do my dad and his work will cease."
Before leaving the scene we get Jesus looks down in the city, and probably thinking of the Samaritan to the rescue, and all the poor souls without half of their unconscious desire. We finally heard his disciples, "Open your eyes and look at those areas, you are ripe for harvest."