Word for the day by Christian Education Forum
Jesus Christ - the Living Water- who forgive sins .
John 4:6-11. Verse10. Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water”.
In the Public ministry of Jesus, we can see three dimensional work of Jesus; they are, teaching, preaching and healing. In this Bible portion we can see all three dimensions of his ministry.
The story of the Samaritan woman begins as Jesus is in the Judean country side with His disciples. During the time of Jesus, the Samaria considered as a strange half-breed place. This passage tells us that Jesus had to pass through Samaria as He was going to Galilee from Judea. Jesus decided to pass through the placeSamaria, where we think is off limit.
1. Passing of Jesus through the Samaria.
Jesus decided to cross the barriers built between the Jews and the Samaritans for years. On the way Jesus and his disciples came to the town of Sychar, where they had the Jacob’s well. After the long journey, Jesus was tired and resting by the Jacob’s well and disciples went to the town to get some food. It was noon time and a woman came to draw water from the well. Jesus asked her for a drink. The Samaritan woman got astonished and replied “a Jew asked for a drink from a Samaritan woman”. Jews were not supposed to talk with Samaritans, as per their tradition and custom. But Jesus broke those rules. Jesus respected woman and shared his need.
2. Promise of Jesus.
Jesus promised the Samaritan woman the ‘Living water’. The woman got surprised and asked him for that ‘Living water’ for her need. Do we have a thirst for this living water? The living water is the word of God, the presence of Jesus Christ. Are we still depending on this lifeless water of this world? Are we willing to receive and experience the presence of this ‘Living water’?
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of the water of this will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirst. The water that I will give will become in them the spring of water gushing up to eternal life”. The Samaritan woman wants the water that Jesus promised. Jesus said to her,” go call your husband”. The woman replied that she has no husband.
3. Prophesying Jesus.
Jesus opened up the past history of the life of this Samaritan woman. She had five husbands and the one who she had then also not her legal husband. When Jesus opened up her life, she astonished and proclaimed that he as a prophet. Jesus brought her attention to the worship of God in truth and Spirit. True worship has to do with spirit and truth, the place or time is not important. The truth is willing to acknowledge that everyone gets thirsty, the spiritual thirst. No matter whether we are Jews, Greeks, Samaritans or Gentiles, we all will have the spiritual thirst. Do we have this spiritual thirst? Jesus Christ is willing to satisfy our thirst with His living water.
4. Preaching of the Samaritan woman.
The Samaritan woman was staggered by the ability of Jesus, to see in to her inmost being. She thought and believed that Jesus is the Messiah. She was compelled to share her findings and conviction. The Christian life is based on these two basic facts, they are discover and communication. No Christian life is complete unless we communicate our experience of Christ. The Samaritan woman shares the importance of the living water-the eternal life. Her words made an impact in the life of the people of her village.
5. Forgiving Jesus.
At the end she told that this man really is the Savior of the world. Here we can see the love, the truth, the redemption, the acceptance, and the forgiveness of Jesus.
The story of the Samaritan woman begins as Jesus is in the Judean country side with His disciples. During the time of Jesus, the Samaria considered as a strange half-breed place. This passage tells us that Jesus had to pass through Samaria as He was going to Galilee from Judea. Jesus decided to pass through the placeSamaria, where we think is off limit.
1. Passing of Jesus through the Samaria.
Jesus decided to cross the barriers built between the Jews and the Samaritans for years. On the way Jesus and his disciples came to the town of Sychar, where they had the Jacob’s well. After the long journey, Jesus was tired and resting by the Jacob’s well and disciples went to the town to get some food. It was noon time and a woman came to draw water from the well. Jesus asked her for a drink. The Samaritan woman got astonished and replied “a Jew asked for a drink from a Samaritan woman”. Jews were not supposed to talk with Samaritans, as per their tradition and custom. But Jesus broke those rules. Jesus respected woman and shared his need.
2. Promise of Jesus.
Jesus promised the Samaritan woman the ‘Living water’. The woman got surprised and asked him for that ‘Living water’ for her need. Do we have a thirst for this living water? The living water is the word of God, the presence of Jesus Christ. Are we still depending on this lifeless water of this world? Are we willing to receive and experience the presence of this ‘Living water’?
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of the water of this will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirst. The water that I will give will become in them the spring of water gushing up to eternal life”. The Samaritan woman wants the water that Jesus promised. Jesus said to her,” go call your husband”. The woman replied that she has no husband.
3. Prophesying Jesus.
Jesus opened up the past history of the life of this Samaritan woman. She had five husbands and the one who she had then also not her legal husband. When Jesus opened up her life, she astonished and proclaimed that he as a prophet. Jesus brought her attention to the worship of God in truth and Spirit. True worship has to do with spirit and truth, the place or time is not important. The truth is willing to acknowledge that everyone gets thirsty, the spiritual thirst. No matter whether we are Jews, Greeks, Samaritans or Gentiles, we all will have the spiritual thirst. Do we have this spiritual thirst? Jesus Christ is willing to satisfy our thirst with His living water.
4. Preaching of the Samaritan woman.
The Samaritan woman was staggered by the ability of Jesus, to see in to her inmost being. She thought and believed that Jesus is the Messiah. She was compelled to share her findings and conviction. The Christian life is based on these two basic facts, they are discover and communication. No Christian life is complete unless we communicate our experience of Christ. The Samaritan woman shares the importance of the living water-the eternal life. Her words made an impact in the life of the people of her village.
5. Forgiving Jesus.
At the end she told that this man really is the Savior of the world. Here we can see the love, the truth, the redemption, the acceptance, and the forgiveness of Jesus.
Prayer
O Lord, our heavenly father and the source of the living water, we come to thy presence with our spiritual thirst. Fill us with your living water and enable us to accept your forgiveness and witness the living water through or lives. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Thought for the Day
“-It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching”. - Francis of Assisi.
P. T. Mathew,
Mar Thoma Church of Dallas Farmers Branch
Mar Thoma Church of Dallas Farmers Branch