In John 4:7 we are told of Jesus encounter of woman by the well. Several things make this woman by the well unusual. Typically women would travel together in the morning to get water for the day, furthermore there would have been a well in Sychar but we see her having to come alone outside of the city in a time of day when no other person would be gathering water and she had done so for some time. We note that she is not a young girl any longer but a woman, her youthful foolish decisions have more than caught up to her. She has lived a lifestyle that now causes her to carry the burden of her choices everyday.
All of this suggests that this woman was an outcast among a people of outcasts; she has been shunned by people who had been shunned. It would no doubt take her an hour or so to walk one way along that dusty dirty road alone with her thoughts, oh how heavy those footsteps must have been. She had been through five husbands and now she is with a man not her husband. What that tells us is that she has not learned from those foolish choices instead she is left just carrying those choices.
As she came to this well because of her own foolish choices but this time there was someone sitting by the well of those choices, Jesus. Oh do not pass by the reality of this my friend, maybe you have come today to the well of your foolish choices that you haven’t learned from and now you aren’t young any more. Your impetuous dreams of being someone famous and important have long ago been swallowed up by the choices you have made. Don’t get me wrong I’m not here, I’m not saying that you made the choices because you just wanted to screw up your life. You didn’t sit down one day and say I think I’ll mess up my life, I think I’ll do drugs become an addict, or have children outside of marriage, or go to jail, but that is where you are now an outcast living outside of outcasts coming each day to the same pit to get a little something to quench the heartache. But this day Jesus is sitting at the well and He is waiting for you and what you haven’t seen is that He has been at the well everyday of your life but this day you have seen Him.
Jesus seeks out folks just like this woman those that because of their own failings society has deemed unworthy of attention and love and He finds them in their station alone in life parched having adapted a lifestyle around their sinful choices. Notice that Jesus gave this woman by the well the opportunity to turn Him down, He gave her that choice it wasn’t Him that didn’t want her it would be her choice not to want Him. Do you not know that right this moment Jesus is sitting on the well of your choices giving you the opportunity to stop coming to that well all together but it will be your choice.
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