John 4:15-26 Jesus Dwells With Us. Do We Recognize Him?

 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.”  He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’;  for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”  The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”  Jesus  to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.  You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.  But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.  God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”  The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.”  Jesus *said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

These passages illustrate many things.  Jesus deliberately went to Samaria to engage them there.  He intentionally asked a Samaritan woman for a drink from her well just to receive reproof that why would a Jew drink from a Samaritan well?  This is a life lesson that Jesus came to save the Jews, but the gentiles as well.  She speaks to Him of differences in worship style between them and the Jews.  Jesus explains to her that the reasons are different that what she thinks.   Just as God Himself is spirit, worship must be in spirit and in truth.  The differences that she knows of are not from God but from man.  It comes to  her mind that their Savior will come.  He declares to her that the Savior is here speaking to her!

Daily Prayer:  Lord, You are so often with us and we do not recognize you.  We become so involved in the world that we miss the Kingdom of God!  Let us settle down and listen to you so that Your words may go from our minds to our hearts and then to our feet so that we may come to You.  In Your holy name I pray Amen.