You’ve probably heard the story of the
Samarithan woman. A persevering woman who held on to what she believed regardless of what
people thought of her. Abi isn’t that the story you
know?
Okay lemme tell you some things about this
woman.
1) She had been married 5times and the man she
was currently living with was not her husband.
Five marriages didn’t make her a sinner (Due to
warfare, famine, disease, and injury, men in those
days dropped like flies. A widow became either a
beggar, a prostitute, or another man’s wife. Each
time, this Samaritan woman had chosen the best
option) but living with a man she wasn’t married
to was a sin
2) During biblical times drawing water and
chatting at the well was the social highpoint of a
woman’s day
So why did she come to the well alone? That was
just weird.
Why am I writing about the Samarithan woman?
because I feel there’s a lot we can learn from her.
1) A CHANGE FROM THE ORDINARY
This woman clearly needed a change in her life,
she had gotten to the point where she was fed up
and didn’t even care about going to the well with
other women to draw water from the community
well. (Off course she had been ostrasize by others
cause she was apparently living in sin) She knew
that being with a man she wasn’t married to was
a sin and she accepted it, she didn’t try to lie or
feel embarrass about it (which is the normal
reaction) when Jesus asked her, she had gotten
to that point where she just said “to hell with all
these laws of marriage” marriage is not what I
need, what I need is Jesus (the messiah).
2) THE CONCIOUSNESS OF JESUS
Even as someone who doesn’t know God (which
Jesus pointed out), she longed for a change and
she knew it was only the messiah who could give
her, only the messiah could quench her thirst and
hopefully change the stupid laws. She carried the
consciousness of the messiah so much that she
was not ashamed to tell a total stranger about
him. She didn’t care about the stranger seeing
her as weird or laughing at her or mocking her, a
woman who was clearly living in sin talking about
the messiah what the hell was she talking about.
This was her conviction, her messiah and she
was concious of him.
3) CONCIOUS OF HER CONVICTION
Are you concious of your conviction your
aspirations, your dreams, the things God has put
in your heart to do. Do you let people talk u down
because of your current position/situation this
woman was ostracised that was why she came to
the well alone but she didn’t let the mockery of
people (because she wasn’t living wrh her
husband) put her down she still held on to her
conviction and one faithful day it manifested.
Halleluyah.
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