No More Drama

I’m Done!

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Lets go to God in scripture

But she was not yet ready in heart or mind to understand this. First she must face the facts about her own life and turn her back on wrongdoing. Critically, therefore, he said, ‘Go, call your husband and come back’ (verse 16). To her reply that she had no husband, Jesus responded that she had had five men and that the sixth likewise was not her husband(verses 17–18). This was all he said. We infer that the woman of Samaria confronted this and dealt with it, as we all must, whatever our own sins are. But what is dealing with sins compared with the wonders of Jesus’ ‘living water’?

His knowledge about her private life doubtless was an awesome moment. It prompted her to address him as a prophet and to seek his verdict on the vexed question of the whereabouts of the true temple (verses 19–20). He responded that the time was coming when true worship of the Father would be in neither place. She observed that the Messiah was coming who would reveal all things (verse 25).

His next words were shattering, ‘I who speak to you am he’. She addressed him as a prophet and he claimed to be the Messiah—and more. His actual words were, ‘I AM, who is speaking to you’ (verse 26; cf. Exodus 3:14). He is Messiah and he is also—God!

Thus we must notice something we might easily miss, that is to say, her changing attitude to him. It began as the slightly hostile, ‘You a Jew …’ (verse 9) and became more respectful, ‘Sir’ (verses 11,15). Her rather sarcastic, ‘Are you greater than our father Jacob’ (verse 12) changed to recognition that he was a prophet (because he knew everything about her—verse 19). Finally, she suggested to her fellow Samaritans that this Jew was the Messiah (verses 29, 39). Like Nicodemus, her conversion was a ‘pilgrimage’ that began unpromisingly and finished wonderfully.

Her abandonment of the (valuable to her) water pot demonstrated intellectual conviction that the ‘old’ was past and the ‘new’ had come. It also expressed her naïve excitement. Meeting the Messiah was good enough reason to leave behind that symbol of the mundane daily round to tell others what she had discovered. This would not be permanent. Tomorrow there would be water to fetch from the well, but she did so knowing the Father.