Title: Do not avoid / John 4:16-19
Do not avoid the content / John 4:16-19
“He said to them, Go and call your husband… ” (John 4:16-19)
Word: When the Samaritan woman asks Jesus for water that will never thirst, Jesus unexpectedly says, “Call your husband.” What does watering have to do with your husband? Jesus quenches a woman's thirst from seemingly irrelevant things. Jesus knows the cause of the woman's thirst and brings it out. How surprised the Samaritan woman must have been when the first person saw her completely exposed to her pain.
The gospel is not just the skin of a watermelon. The word about living water has a specific application to this woman. Jesus begins his speech from the passage where the woman says, 'Don't just talk about the problem'. Only by talking about the problem can a true relationship be possible. It is because we cannot give a woman the living water she needs without revealing the essence of the problem, that is, the cause of her thirst. Treatments that only relieve symptoms are of no use. Now do you understand the relationship between living water and your husband?
The woman tries to move on by simply explaining that she does not have a husband, but Jesus persistently digs into it. She says not to avoid it, and says she had five husbands in the past and is now living with a man who is not her husband. Knowing the woman's private life accurately, revealing her wounds and healing them. There is a deep silence at this time. The text omits many stories here. I don't know if Jesus and the woman were having a conversation with their eyes, or whether the woman was crying and Jesus was watching him silently, but there must have been an inexpressible conversation and healing. So, after verse 18, a long time must have passed.
It can be seen in verse 29, when the Samaritan woman cried out, “Come and see a man who has told me all the things I have done.” In the meantime, I've been thinking about it again. Up until now, I have seen this woman as a woman of unclean conduct. But that was the wrong idea. Did the woman change the man? No. Men must have left her. five times too. I don't know if he's attached to the man of today to live. In this way, the Samaritan woman is an unfortunate woman who has been abandoned one after another by many people.
You must not meet Jesus superficially. The encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman goes deeper than that with Nicodemus. The more I reveal my heart, the more concrete changes in my life come.