It Just Clicked…And I Made The Connection…
John 4:10-29 (Amplified Bible)
10Jesus answered her, If you had only known and had recognized God's gift and Who this is that is saying to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him [instead] and He would have given you living water. 11She said to Him, Sir, You have nothing to draw with [no drawing bucket] and the well is deep; how then can You provide living water? [Where do You get Your living water?] 12Are You greater than and superior to our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also? 13Jesus answered her, All who drink of this water will be thirsty again. 14But whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling) [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life. 15The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may never get thirsty nor have to come [continually all the way] here to draw. 16At this, Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband and come back here. 17The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have spoken truly in saying, I have no husband.18For you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your husband. In this you have spoken truly. 19The woman said to Him, Sir, I see and understand that You are a prophet. 20Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you [Jews] say that Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary and proper to worship. 21Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither [merely] in this mountain nor [merely] in Jerusalem. 22You [Samaritans] do not know what you are worshiping [you worship what you do not comprehend]. We do know what we are worshiping [we worship what we have knowledge of and understand], for [after all] salvation comes from [among] the Jews. 23A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers. 24God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality). 25The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, He Who is called the Christ (the Anointed One); and when He arrives, He will tell us everything we need to know and make it clear to us. 26Jesus said to her, I Who now speak with you am He. 27Just then His disciples came and they wondered (were surprised, astonished) to find Him talking with a woman [a married woman]. However, not one of them asked Him, What are You inquiring about? or What do You want? or, Why do You speak with her? 28Then the woman left her water jar and went away to the town. And she began telling the people, 29Come, see a Man Who has told me everything that I ever did! Can this be [is not this] the Christ? [Must not this be the Messiah, the Anointed One?]
Yesterday, I received a phone call from a dear friend and sister in the Lord, who is a “First Lady.” She and I use to work together and when we met it was something unique, special and quite rare. As she recounted our meeting and how we” just clicked,” she said that is what makes our connection what it is. We both understand the dynamics of who God is in our lives and how He works to bring people together. As we continued she relayed that her desire is to see others touched a connected through a spiritual bond of sisterhood as we had encountered. I was touched realizing that there was purpose in our meeting and in our friendship.
How amazing it is that we encounter people and without the foreknowledge and yielding to God we can miss what one encounter may do to change our lives. Just as in this scripture there is a woman who encounters Jesus, or should I say Jesus encounters her. In the initial phases of the conversation she was focused on everything ascetic, it was about Jesus being a Jew and her being a Samaritan. Then she moves to addressing Him with respect, as the conversation continued, she began to call Him Sir, but it when revelation comes and Jesus gives her some helpful hints that she realizes the man that stands before her may very well be “The Messiah, The Christ,” the one that could change her and see into her past her present and still want to deal with her. It is in the moment that things become clear as to who God is connecting us with that things click and revelation, restoration and even recreation can flow, a connection that spans all reason. When we can understand placement and purpose we know that we may not understand all of who this person is but we understand, if God is bringing them into our life there is something in them that we need to connect with to get us to God or another place in Him. You see God builds upon what is present in our walk and in our seeking of Him. It is like building blocks, as He encourages us to go higher we have to disconnect with some things, people and parts of our lives in order for us to connect with God; but often He will use relationships to establish truth in us or to give us accountability for whom we really are.
Today let God lead you. Let us humble ourselves and allow God to bring us into the His presence in a new and more fulfilled way, by connecting us to those who are to represent growth, a push or a level of culpability for our next level in Him. Don’t look at it as a chance but see it as a purpose. Let the knowledge of who God is and who He may be aligning us with click in a way that we realize that we need each other to be whole, to be healed, to be delivered and to survive!
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