A Memorable Day (Pt 2 of the Woman at the Well)
Jesus had said things that only
God could know, but instead of getting angry, she felt her life's load
lifting. Her mind cleared. The weariness
vanished. She felt like a kid again. Something had changed. She had experienced
the searing pain of rejection by five husbands, the townspeople and as a
Samaritan. However, Jesus did not reject her. Something inside changed. She now
believed He was God in the flesh - the Messiah.
Jesus reminded her of her life of
misery, but instead of the usual feelings of sadness, shame and failure, she now
had hope. Her thoughts rushed to the memories of those worthless men, those men
that had done her wrong, those men that still held a special spot in her heart,
regardless.
Without thinking, she abandoned
her burden of water to deal with her life's burden. She lifted up her wrinkled robe,
and stirred up the dust as she scurried back to talk to "Tom, Dick, Harry,
Bob, Al and C.B. (Current Boyfriend)."
She stumbled a bit, disheveled
and breathless as she ran up to "Tom." Without looking up, he dourly
addressed her, "What now, woman? You lookin' for money again?"
"No, I met someone, you have
to meet. He knows all about everything I
ever did. He must be the Christ."
She eventually convinces him to
go to the well and meet Jesus, then goes to the rest of the locally known
"scumbags" and tells them about Christ. They all saw that something had changed in
her demeanor and decided to check it out. Instead of feeling uncomfortable with
the reunion of her former lovers, she rejoiced that they all showed up. She
didn't care what the townspeople thought - they needed to meet Jesus.
"The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city,
and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I
did: is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came unto
him.” John 4:28-30.
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