Title: Jesus Healing Wounds / John 4:5-14
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John 4:5-14
Most of what Jesus did in the world was to heal. In that sense, it can be said that Jesus came into the world to heal. He healed sinners, healed the sick, and healed those who lived wrongly. In Matthew 9:35, there are four things Jesus did in the world.
Jesus went through all the cities and towns
teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
Healed every disease and every weakness.
The thing to notice in this verse is that He healed ‘every weakness’. What is 'everything weak'? The scariest thing in a person's life is this weakness. It is a disease of the mind. It's a wound. It is a feeling of inferiority.
In today's text, a woman who had been living with this kind of wounds met Jesus and was healed and started a new life. One day Jesus came down to Judea and then went up again to Galilee. If you want to go from Judea to Galilee, the closest route is via Samaria. Not only did the Jews not get along well with the Samaritans, but they even looked down on them as subhuman. It was not only surprising, but also dangerous, for Jews in this relationship to enter the land of Samaria. However, Jesus entered the Samaritan village of Suga. It was about noon (4:6). The disciples went out to buy food, and Jesus was alone. It was by a well called 'Jacob's Well'. During the hot midday, no one comes out to draw water. But at that time, a Samaritan woman came out to draw water.
Why did this woman come out to the well to draw water alone in the middle of the day when no one came out? I see the wounded life in this image. This Samaritan woman has something inside her. Because of that wound, the joy of life is lost, and a life that loses joy creates another wound. This woman has tried many transformations while making human efforts to change her life. I've lived here, I've lived there, I've lived with this person, I've met that person. But the result has always been a wound. So instead, I got a deeper wound in my heart. The soul is plunged into a swamp of deep despair. People hated to see and were afraid to meet. So he came out alone at a time when there was no one in the well.
We do not know when this Samaritan woman began to live in such a wounded state. Most of people's hurt starts with the experience of 'rejection'.
There is a story like this. A child studied hard and got a B grade. I came home with the expectation that my parents would be happy and showed me my report card. Then my parents said, 'If you had worked a little harder, you wouldn't have been able to get an A grade.' So, this child worked hard to get an A grade, and happily showed the A grade report card to her parents. Then my parents said, ‘Son, if you study a little more diligently, won’t you get an A+?’ So I worked really hard and this kid got an A+. You have received a score that does not have a higher score. So this kid came home very quickly and showed the A+ to his parents. Then my parents said something like this. ‘Your school is a very strange school. How can a kid like you get an A+?' This kid is out of his mind. When this happens, you lose your self-esteem and become a child who does not trust others with deep wounds. This is just one example of rejection.
For whatever reason this Samaritan woman had been hurt, he lived a self-righteous life, considering himself to be of little value. In the end, he would have been cut off from his neighbors and lived a life full of resentment and hatred. So, I would have always lived with my family and neighbors, and I was hurt and hurt. He would have even hated himself and lived his life. It was after meeting Jesus that this woman was healed of her wounds, freed from the shackles of her life, and regained her confidence and joy in life.
One day, Jesus asked the woman to draw water for a glass of water. The woman answers.
“Are you, a Jew, asking for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?”
Jesus keeps talking to this woman, this Samaritan woman whom no one has ever dealt with. You are doing this not because you are really thirsty, but to heal this poor soul.
“If you knew who I was, you would have asked me for a drink. If you drink the water I give you, you will never thirst.”
Then the woman's eyes widened. Once you drink it, you will never thirst again! Wouldn't it be nice to have such water? If only I could drink that water once and never come out to draw water again! So they say, ‘If there is such water, please give it to me so that I do not bother coming to this well.
Then the Lord suddenly changes the conversation to a spiritual matter.
“Go and get your husband”
He touched the woman's wounds. When Jesus touched the woman's wounds, he did not intend to make her hurt, but to restore his true self by seeing. Sometimes pain and wounds can be healed by revealing them rather than hiding them. The hidden and covered wounds do not disappear, but sink deep into the heart. Then, from time to time, it rises again and acts as Satan's instrument to destroy one's own life and hurt others. That is why the Lord allowed the woman to be healed by exposing her painful wounds.
If you read a book called ‘Goodbye Beautifully from the Scars of the Past’ (Namok Yoon), it talks about the destructive power of wounds in 8 ways.
1. Live a past-oriented life and destroy the future.
2. Cut off from God and prevent them from going to the river of grace.
3. Become the perpetrator who throws stones called wounds.
4. It is passed down through the lives of children.
5. I don't love myself.
6. Cut off from neighbors and blame others for everything.
7. Happiness and freedom disappear.
8. It binds me to hurt and hatred.
Wounds destroy themselves and put others in pain. A prime example of this is King Saul. He became the first king of Israel, but he spent his whole life feeling inferior to David. The only thing he did all his life was to pursue David to get rid of him. Although his circumstances were not favorable as a king, he was hurt by the words of the people praising David more than him, and from then on, he became a person who was bound by the wounds and spent his whole life. It makes you realize just how terrifying the wounds are.
This woman's wounds were healed by meeting Jesus, and her thirst that could not be filled with anything could be filled with the words of Jesus. Jesus gave her no money, no knowledge, no honor, nothing in the world. It's just what you said. However, these words became a spring of life for this woman, refreshing her dry and burning soul, and giving her such painful wounds. You have restored your confidence in life. Reluctant to meet with the locals, a woman who was out to draw water in the middle of the day ran into the middle of the town. and cried.
‘I have met the Messiah! I have found the true way of life! I've got eternal spring water! Come see you too! Meet him!’
Where did this freedom come from? Where did this courage and strength come from? It was created when we truly received Jesus, the fountain of eternal life, into our hearts and changed our lives through the word. True faith changes lives. set life free. It pours strength and courage into life.
Jesus was wounded for us. He died on the cross for us. You have been put to shame. You have become the most humble. You did it for us. He is the wounded healer. His love and grace heal our wounds completely.
The Lord is our strength, our courage, our strength. Please look to the Lord when you are weak and discouraged in the world. Whenever I am hurt by people and those wounds trouble my life, I hope you look to the Lord.
Look at the face of the Lord when you are in trouble. Behold the Lord of Peace
Friends who are troubled in the world, look to the Lord of comfort.
Lift up your eyes and see the Lord. Cast all your worries on the Lord.
Look at the face of the Lord in times of sorrow. May the Lord of love give you rest.
When you have no strength and your heart is weak, look to the Lord of power.
Give strength to all who call on the name of the Lord, and he will always protect you.
The present is definitely a world where there is more to eat and drink than in the past. But our lives have never been enriched. We live in a world that has become infinitely convenient physically, but human life is empty and people's hearts are empty. In the never-ending competition, they get stuck with people and experience deep wounds. No matter how famous Jacob's well is, it cannot quench our thirst. Nothing in this world can heal the wounds engraved in our souls. Only the living water that Jesus gives - that alone can quench us from the thirst of life and break us out of the swamp of deep wounds.
Everyone has wounds. It's a matter of how you deal with the wounds. If you hide your wounds and turn them away, the wounds will not disappear or be covered, but sink into the inside. So in the end it becomes a tool that takes away the joy of my life, makes me feel inferior, and hurts others.
Jesus is with you. Jesus is talking to you. Please be with Jesus. I hope you meet Jesus. I hope you will truly meet Jesus in prayer, in the Word, in hymns, and in worship. Please put down the wounds in your heart in worship. Ask for the help of the Holy Spirit. So, after worship, I hope you will change into a bright smile with the joy of being healed. A person who is healed by Jesus becomes a healer. In the name of the Lord, I pray in the name of the Lord that you will be healed every day in Jesus, heal others who are hurting, and become saints who live joyfully and powerfully on your own.
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