He’s Waiting for You

                                                     

John 4:4 And he must needs go through Samaria

 At the beginning of chapter 4 of the book of John, we are told that Jesus is on his way to Jericho and that he needed to go through Samaria. On getting to Samaria, he sits at a well tired while he sends his disciples off to get food for them to eat. He’s seating there at the well and along comes a Samaritan woman to draw water from the well for her household. Jesus breaks the conversational ice by asking the woman for a drink of water. She expresses her surprise that Jesus as a Jew does not mind speaking to her, a Samaritan. A conversation then ensues between them with Jesus revealing the intimate details of her life, including the ones that were not so salubrious.

By the end of the conversation, Jesus reveals to her that he is the Messiah, the one sent by God to save the world from their sins. In the end, having been set free from her past, she runs into the city as a missionary declaring the Messiah to the men of a city. There is a belief that if you get a man to believe, you have also got his family to believe. In the end, the entire city was saved. By the time his disciples got back, Jesus was no longer hungry or tired. I do not believe that Jesus met the woman by chance. Jesus made it clear that he never did anything arbitrarily. The Bible tells us that he was the one who needed to pass through Samaria. We also know that he sent his disciples away while he sat and waited. He waited patiently for the woman he knew was going to be the first person at the well. He waited because of what he wanted to achieve in and through her life. In spite of the things that potentially disqualified her, Jesus knew what she was capable of achieving.  

God told Jeremiah that before he was formed in his mother’s womb, God had known him and ordained him a prophet to the nations. Isn’t it wonderful to know that there is a Saviour who knows us and what we are capable of, even when we look down on ourselves? Isn’t it great to know that there’s a loving God who even in depths of our sins or despair, is looking on lovingly as he waits patiently for us? He waits patiently for us even as we go about surfeiting and carousing even as he knows that he has so much better in store for us. All he’s asking is that we honestly seek for his help to be able to come through the things that are holding us back from being all he has called us to be.

JC Cruz is the author of DECEPTIO published by WestBowPress, a division of Thomas Nelson publishers.http://bookstore.westbowpress.com/Products/SKU000194087/Deceptio.aspx and LOST, BUT FOUND available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DPLLEUQ/. You can follow him on Twitter @Cruz_JCReal.