The woman who arrives every day about noon to the well to
draw water goes home without water, and without her water jar. We are not told whether she suddenly drops it
as the significance of the words Jesus utters to her sink in. She could have carefully put the jar down and
then run off, but that seems unlikely.
After all, she just heard the most extraordinary thing she
had ever her in all her life! She just
spent time speaking with the Messiah.
More importantly, the Messiah took the time to sit and talk to her. The conversation she has with Jesus would
have been an extraordinary conversation on its own had it just taken place with
an interesting Jewish man sitting at noon by the well. She had learned some thought-provoking
concepts, after all. But the realization
that she is in the presence of the Messiah shakes her world. Nothing matters anymore…or does it?
She does the most extraordinary thing—she runs! I don’t know, my first reaction would have
been to sit down with the Messiah not to run from him. I have so many questions to ask; stories to
enjoy; advice on life to receive; insights into the future to ponder. But no, not this woman, there is one thing
more important to her than sitting with the Master—telling her people about
what she just discovered. In essence, she
leaves Jesus in order to tell others about Jesus. I don’t know if I would have taken the
risk. I probably would have asked Jesus
to come with me into town. The woman takes
a big risk. What if the Messiah is gone
when she returns! I have a sense the
woman is right—this Messiah is not going anywhere anytime soon. He had come to talk to her. He would be there waiting when she came back
with her friends and neighbors.
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