Exodus 211 But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
Nathanael just wanted to be noticed.
John 148 “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.” 49 Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.”
The leper did not want to be broken anymore.
Matthew 82 A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cured of his leprosy.
Nicodemus knew at the heart of his ministry that he was misguided.
John 3 3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
And like all of these situations, we are all facing surrender. Our reality is this:
Sooner Or Later We Are All Going
To Have To Surrender To Something
Inadequate.
Unnoticed.
Broken.
Misguided.
What is your story?
If you are like me, it is a long laundry list of obstacles.
But the reality for all of us is this:
We can surrender to Jesus or lose to the rest.
And our surrender is not a detriment.
It is the greatest option that we could ever have.
So cry out to the King of the Universe … And give everything you have to Him. He is worthy.
In The Name of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Jesus is seeking you out in the same way that He sought out a rejected woman at a well some 2000 years ago.
And when you understand this very important truth, you understand that you are saved for a purpose.
John 4
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.
6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?” 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I 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 won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” 16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
18 Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” 19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.” 27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ ?”
30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers. 42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
My point of emphasis on this passage of scripture is NOT about the fact that Jesus cut the humanistic ties with racism, misogyny, elitism, economic class, religious rules, and every other item that we, as humans, have created … Even though it could be.
My point of emphasis on this passage of scripture is NOT about forgiveness for all … Even though it could be.
My point of emphasis on this passage of scripture is NOT about the fact that Jesus claimed to be God … Even though it could be.
My point of emphasis on this passage of scripture is NOT about Jesus being the LIVING WATER … Even though it could be.
My point of emphasis is this:
YOU, just like the woman at the well, are saved for a purpose.
So if you lack Purpose, then check in with Jesus and connect with Him in a deeper way … because when He saves you He gives you purpose.
And if you are in need of saving, cry out to Him to be your Savior … He is worthy to save. And He has such a great purpose for you.
He is worthy … and He wants to put something on your life that is bigger than anything you could ever imagine or even ask for.
YOU … were saved for a purpose.
In The Name of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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