{"id":3815,"date":"2019-10-09T12:46:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:48:45","slug":"woman-at-the-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/09\/woman-at-the-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman at the Well"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How many times have you gone to the well of life so to speak, and all you got was muddy water, hateful stares and a sore back from carrying the water pitcher? (Your cares, burdens, regrets, sin, it all gets very heavy.)<\/h6>\n
You get up day after day, week after week, then months turn into years and all you get is the same old thing. You\u2019re on your fifth relationship and that one isn\u2019t working either\u2026the women in the community won\u2019t have anything to do with you. They whisper when you walk up and they call you a half-breed. You\u2019re a Samaritan, the lowliest of the low. What beauty you had, has faded and that was more of a curse than anything else; you\u2019re simply worn out by life from making wrong choices.<\/h6>\n
So, after all the other women have left, you go to the well\u2026you just don\u2019t want to hear their gossip and see their accusing eyes. You\u2019re over it!<\/h6>\n
Its noon time, it\u2019s hot but that\u2019s nothing new you\u2019re used to that. You notice a Jew sitting by the well. What now, you wonder. Jews don\u2019t usually come through Samaria. You try to ignore him. But he speaks to you.<\/h6>\n
\u201cGive me a drink of water.\u201d<\/h6>\n
Sometimes when we least expect it\u2026we have an encounter with someone who is the least likely to speak to us and it surprises us.<\/h6>\n
Today this is what happens to the Samaritan woman. She\u2019s going to have a well drawing experience, which will change her life forever!!<\/h6>\n
You know the story, if not you can read it in John chapter 4:1-42 in the Bible.<\/h6>\n
If Jesus asked you for a drink of water, what would you do? What would you think?<\/h6>\n
He was a Jew; she was a Samaritan\u2026<\/h6>\n
The Samaritans worshiped Yahweh, but on a different mountain. They were mixed breeds. The Jews looked down on them and despised them, but not Jesus. He was constantly turning the customs of the day upside down.<\/h6>\n
Jesus was no ordinary Jew, oh no; he was the son of God! She had no clue.<\/h6>\n
That day the water she drew was not from Jacob\u2019s well\u2026cloudy, unfulfilling water\u2026No she received pure, clean, fresh, everlasting water from the Well of Jesus\u2026 she would never thirst again\u2026and not only did she receive this water\u2026she left her water jar<\/em> and she ran to her village and told everyone what Jesus had said to her. \u201cCome see this man that told me all about my life\u2026\u201d because of her testimony they believe on Jesus too!<\/h6>\n
This story has been told for over two thousand years\u2026<\/h6>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter your race, or gender Jesus is sitting at the local Well waiting for you to arrive. He wants to give you living water!<\/h6>\n
What will you do?<\/h6>\n
Will you believe me, a woman, who is telling you about the Messiah? Or will you come and hear him for yourself?<\/h6>\n
Jesus is the Messiah! The Savior!<\/h6>\n
Are you thirsty? Are you broken and weary? Are you tired of the struggle, the lies, and the empty life that never satisfies? Are you tired of the treadmill that never ends? Spinning around and around but never getting anywhere?<\/h6>\n
Come to the well\u2026it\u2019s a spring of living water always bubbling, always fresh, and it\u2019s free\u2026<\/h6>\n
Jesus said, I will give you living water and you will never thirst again.<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill ~ 2018<\/h6>\n
You can read the story in John 4:1-42\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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