Beloved: grace and peace be yours forevermore from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. I am pleased to welcome you to the second week of the month of September 2022. My prayer is that God will fill your heart with great inspiration to lead many others to Him, so that they also can enjoy His goodness and salvation, just as you are enjoying them. Amen.
In John’s gospel, he shares a story with us about a Samaritan woman that our Lord Jesus met by the well of Jacob in a town called Sychar. Evidently, the woman we are talking about must have a very troublesome one. That is because, as the conversation our Lord with her reveals, she had gone through five different marriages and had been divorced by her five different husbands. And even at the time the Lord met her, she had moved in with another man that she was not married to at all. Imagine, then, the kind of reputation she must have had in that town and among her people. I believe that is the explanation for her being all alone at the well to fetch water. She was somebody most people did not want to have anything to do with. (Cf. John 4)
Yet, when the Lord was done talking with her and introducing her to His well of living waters, she left her water jar, went back into the city and practically brought everybody with her to listen to Him. And that was how He ended up spending two more days with them.
But how did this troublesome woman suddenly become evangelical? How did this woman that nobody wanted to associate with succeed in bringing a whole town to Jesus? She must have spoken passionately to all the people about her experience with the Lord. That means what she heard from Him so blessed her that she forgot about her bitterness and hatred for those around her and began to freely tell them to stop deceiving themselves and come and meet their Lord and Messiah.
In like manner, if we have been blessed at all by our Lord Jesus, He expects us to become evangelical like this woman, forget about all the wrong things people have done to us and begin to lead them to Him. This is so that they too, like us, can experience His salvation and goodness in their lives. Unfortunately, many of us are not doing anything about this. We are not inviting others to come and join us in the beautiful fellowship we are having with the Lord and His people.
Why, then, are we like this? Could it be that we are not enjoying His goodness in our lives at all? Or could it be that what He is doing for us and in our lives is not worth talking about? Or could it be that we are ashamed to be associated with Him? Whatever our reasons may be, it is selfish of us not to lead others in our lives and around us to the one that is doing our lives good and bearing all our burdens for us moment after moment.
So, if the Lord has been nothing but good to you in your life, home and affairs, as we face this new week, become evangelical like that Samaritan woman and begin to lead those around to join you in fellowshipping with our Lord Jesus Christ and with us too. Truly, you may not know how to preach. That woman also did not know how to preach. Yet she brought all her townspeople to our Lord Jesus, the one who knew what to say to them. You too should bring all those people in your life who are in need of the Lord Jesus into our fellowship. And the Lord will give us the right words to say to them and meet them at the point of their needs. May the Spirit of God will your heart with great passion and boldness to act accordingly, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Have yourself a splendid week.