Woman of Rejection

Monday, July 4, 2011: John 4:4, 7, 9-10 (NKJV)

But He needed to go through Samaria.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

Background: Christ Jesus journeyed the long way to meet the woman of Samaria.

Why did Christ Jesus ask for and then offer water? He knew that hers was a sinner’s thirst that only He could quench.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011: John 4:11, 13-14 (NKJV)

The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?

Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Why did the woman ask if he had a stringed contained? Knowing that He did not mean the well’s water, she wanted to know more about living water and was answered.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011: John 4:15 – 18 (NKJV)

The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

Jesus 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 well said, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

Was the woman asking so that she would not need to come to that well? Yes, she had taken abuse from those who knew her. Yet notice how polite the Lord is to her!

Thursday, July 7, 2011: John 4:19 – 20 (NKJV)

The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

Why did the woman change the subject from living water to worship? It is quite likely that she was repentant of her sins and had sought to be right with God. This is why the Lord detoured through Samaria.

Friday, July 8, 2011: John 4:24 – 26 (NKJV)

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” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”

Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

Why did the woman say, “When He comes, He will tell us all things?” She was asking if He was Messiah (because He had revealed her needs) and He confirmed it.