Through the Bible - Leviticus 16-18, Mark 7:1-13
Good morning,
This past week I've travelled where it seemed that worlds collided, figuratively and literally. I was amazed at the traffic in the streets in Columbia.
Full size trucks, buses, SUV's, tiny cars, motorcycles, bycicles, pedestrians and even horse drawn carriages. The horse drawn carriages just didn't fit the picture, but there they were. The funniest sight was that of a horse drawn carriage carrying a big flatscreen TV, the driver must have been making a local delivery.
For today's verse we'll go to John chapter 4 where it is said that Jesus "needed to go through Samaria. We've already seen the conflict between the Jews and Samaritans going back to the days of Nehemiah and before. Jesus was heading to another place figuratively and literally where worlds collided.
John 4:9 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.
10 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." NKJV
The woman he approached had had five husbands and was living with another man at the time. Her world was in a mess. Her world collided with Jesus' world. A world, a life that offered forgiveness, joy, peace, love and gave her hope. Her "religion" had not brought these things to her. It wasn't religion that would bring them. It was faith in Jesus that would do so.
She believed what Jesus had said and she acted upon it immediately, telling the story to those in her city. She had found the One, the Messiah, that so many had been looking for for so long.
Has your world collided with Jesus' world. By putting on Christ, will others see Jesus in you, will you be part of that kind of collision in someone else's life.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. NKJV
Blessings,
Mike
mikevw@bellsouth.net
mikesvotd.blogspot.com
John 4:5-16
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 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.
10 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."
11 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? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?"
13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 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."
15 The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."
NKJV
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