Your Story | God's Story
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· 7 viewsWhen our story meets God's story, everything changes. Jesus' story becomes our story.
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TRUTH: When our story meets God’s story, everything changes.
I want to introduce you to someone. In , we meet a woman who was from Samaria. Her name was not mentioned. In the heat of the day, Jesus and his disciples were on a journey. says that they had to pass through Samaria. Jesus was tired from his journey so he sat down on a well in Samaria.
As Jesus was resting, the Samaritan woman walked up to draw water alone in the middle of the day. All of the other women had come earlier when it was cooler.
She was outcasted
She was defined by others
She was forgotten
She based her identity on her past mistakes (it became who she was)
She was labeled (by others and herself)
Jesus pursued her still
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 4:
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
John 4:10
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”
She had met the “gift of God” Jesus spoke of in the very beginning of the conversation. She thing is, she had to bring her story to Jesus. When she did, her story met God’s story and EVERYTHING CHANGED.
The label dropped
She was no longer lost, but found
She was defined by Jesus and God’s grace, not her past mistakes
She was redeemed and changed.
Her story was no longer, I am__________. It was now, Jesus is my source.
TRUTH: When our story meets God’s story, everything changes.
Are you defined?
Are you lost?
Are you forgotten?
Jesus is pursuing you. Jesus is offering you the gift of God. You must bring your story to Him; all of it.