LEARNING DAILY

John 4:28-29, The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, “come see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

This was the third week of a series about Jesus going through Samaria to meet a woman by a well. Before the weekend’s message, it is important to back up a few verses to examine the discussion between Jesus and the Samarian woman. They have been discussing the living water that Jesus could give to her so we would thirst no more. The woman tried to divert the discussion to religious stuff” by referring to where their fathers had worship and where the Jews had worshipped. Jesus responded that it was not about where a person worshipped; it was a matter of worshipping in spirit and in truth. To that she said, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). When He comes, He will tell us all things.” Jesus told her, “I am He.”

Be sure to catch the significance of this part of the conversation. Jesus willingly reveals to a Samaritan woman who is an outcast and probably not religious. Dr. Newton made it clear “that a Jewish rabbi would never talk to a woman in public, not even his wife. But Jesus elevates this woman and tells her she is worthy”. 

It is at this point that the disciples return, and the woman leaves her waterpot and goes back to the “people she was running from” (Dr. Newton). The woman had come to the well when no one else would be there to draw water from the well. Jesus is there and offers her water that will cause her to never thirst again. He eventually tells her He is the Messiah. Notice what she does – she leaves the waterpot, probably beside the well, and goes to tell others about Jesus. She “no longer needs the waterpot because she is now filled with the ‘living water’ and she had become the vessel for others” (Dr. Newton). She left behind a very important piece of property in her eagerness to tell others about Jesus.

The woman ran to those people who knew all about her past. In doing so she used her past as a reason for them to listen to Jesus. “He knew all the things I ever did.” Dr. Newton said, It was her authenticity, her honesty that brought the people, both men and women, to Jesus. God does not need perfect people to tell others about what Jesus has done for them”. Whatever the sins she had committed and the socially awkwardness of the woman was overcome by what she had received from her conversation with Jesus.

I believe the significance of leaving the waterpot is important for every Believer. When one comes to the saving faith in Jesus Christ, they no longer need the things they once believed were essential to living their life. What became her most important thought was the One who gave her the “living water”. It seems she was in a hurry to tell others about Jesus and their conversation. Taking the waterpot with her would have hindered her.

My question is what do each of us need to leave behind or get rid of so we are able to tell those around us about the One who still offers living water? As followers of Him, doesn’t it become our responsibility to tell others about Him, about how He saves and changes us and sets us on a narrow way to walk into His kingdom? What keeps you from inviting others to come to the “well of living water” and drink?