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Content There are three principles of happiness. First, you need to do something. A person who has nothing to do is an unhappy person. Also, there must be some wind. Human beings cannot be happy with this present joy alone. There must be some wind for the future. Third, you must have something to love. The fact that you suffer because you are not loved is more important than being loved, because you do not have anything to love. When you have someone to love, you are truly happy.
Today's text is the story of Jesus meeting an unfortunate woman who came to draw water from the well of the city of Suga and preaching to her. You and I have a lot to think about about this woman. This woman is a foreigner. She is a woman who has lost her social skills. No one treated this woman as a human being. This woman is also a person who has been ‘bullyed’ in today’s words, whom no one wants to meet. Jesus met this poor woman.
Jesus said to this woman mysteriously, “Whoever drinks the water I will give him will never thirst” (verse 14). Then the woman said, “Give me such water (if any), so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw water” (verse 15)? She's just such an arrogant woman. She is a woman who does not have the spiritual sense to understand the truth of heaven. Not only that, but the Lord is speaking of this woman. “You had five husbands” (verse 18)? She is a woman of strange fate.
But a life that cannot drink water, a woman who is suffering and stuffy, a life that does not seem to be lived. It's not a life you want to live, but a life you have to live. A life without happiness, a life without knowing what happiness is. How could this life be only this woman? Are you not a modern person living today? Or am I not? This life was met by Jesus.
Jesus is evangelizing this woman. People often say that today's text is a textbook for personal evangelism. It is a textbook word that explains well how we should evangelize to individuals. Look! This woman is very, very happy to have met Jesus. There is a dramatic scene where “the woman left her water jar and went into the town” (v. 28)? This woman is insane. A water jar that makes a thirsty life tantalizing can no longer be meaningful to this woman who met Jesus. Why? It was only because we were filled with the joy of meeting Jesus, because our Jesus is our happiness. This is called the thrill of salvation. In this moment, life changed. It is a moment of reversal from a life in despair to a life of hope, and from the path of death to the path of life.
That's why he runs to those who criticize him and doesn't want to see him and say, "I have found the Messiah" and "I have found Jesus." He also overcame his embarrassing past. Contempt or insult is not a problem. The self-awareness and humiliation that I had given up as a useless human being disappeared, and I was filled with heavenly joy and emotion. Suddenly, this woman became the evangelist woman of Suga.
Dear saints, Are you moved by this woman's joy of salvation?
“Lift up your eyes and see the fields. It is white and it is the harvest time” ? Now, what comes to mind as you listen to these words? Anyone remember? Run hard after this service is over. Go and tell them this gospel. Today, our Lord is looking for that lost sheep through me and you. It is because you are the Lord of love who values one life more than the world.