A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                              IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY PART XIV 

"I, a Samaritan woman, am living in Sychar in Samaria..... I was at the place where you usually find me at midday.... I was at our well... I go there every day at that time of the day.... Usually I am there all by myself.... But I was so surprised to see a Jewish Man there when I arrived... I did not say anything.... But He spoke to me... He asked me for some water....I was surprised that He did so...  But I decided that He must have been very thirsty.... That could have been the only reason for Him to have broken the rules all Jewish people as well as all Samaritan people know about.... I "forgot" about the rules as well.... For I ended up talking with Him about worship....He had some amazing things to say... Things I had never heard before... Such as that one day it will no longer be important where we worship but how we worship.... That gave me courage to talk to Him about the Messiah.... And His reply filled my heart with unspeakable joy!!... He shared with me that He is the Messiah!!.. I have met the Messiah!!... Me, this Samaritan woman, this nobody from Sychar...I have met the Messiah!!.... Can this be true?... It must be true..... I know one thing, this Man cannot lie to me.... I know too that I cannot keep this amazing truth to myself... I must tell others that I have met the Messiah."....Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Jesus reveals to this Samaritan woman that He is the long awaited Messiah....

                 ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                            IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY PART XIV

Jesus answers the Samaritan woman beyond her expectations, as you can read in John 4:26

Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am He."

Here you have the reason for Jesus going to Samaria. It is not to meet an important political or religious leader. No, it is to meet a sinful Samaritan woman, a women with a past, a woman rejected by her community, a woman who has to draw water at the well at midday to avoid being with the other women of the town. Such is the love of Christ for this woman that He is willing to go through Samaria, which no Jew ever did, was willing to suffer heat, thirst and hunger in order that this woman might get to know Him, her Messiah. Moreover, He has a plan and a purpose for her beyond her getting to know her Messiah.