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thewordfortheday · 13 days

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The woman at the well mentioned in John 4 is a woman who had deep longing which she was trying to fulfill with all the wrong things. She thought that her longing would be satisfied in marriage. Alas! She felt even more empty. Five marriages didn't help, perhaps she thought, a live-in relationship would be more satisfying. Consumed by guilt and shame, she went to the well. It was midday, perhaps not wanting to run into any known faces. Jesus met her there!

Today, perhaps you too are living with an unfulfilled longing or a quashed dream, and you are tired of waiting. That longing will remain as long as we live. Only Jesus can fill that void, that longing. Jesus said, “‘But those who drink the water I give, will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life’” (John 4:14).

I do hope that God grants you the desires of your heart but it's even better when He fills the deep longings of our hearts with His Spirit, (the living water). We will never be left wanting and thirsting. We will be satisfied as a weaned child in the bosom of its mother.

#bible verse #daily devotional #christian quotes #bible quotes #inspiration #daily devotion #christian quote #christian life #scripture #bible #woman at the well

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tomicscomics · 1 year

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But bro, like, what if DARKNESS... is just the absence of LIGHT?!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: Jesus waits by a well until a Samaritan woman arrives with a bucket to get some water. Jesus offers the woman living water, but she notices He doesn't have a bucket and wonders how He could get any water from a well without one since the well is deep. She means "deep" as in "the water is very far down and you'd need a bucket on a rope to reach it and scoop some water out." In this cartoon, she calls the well "deep", but then the well spouts some silly nonsense and we realize she doesn't mean deep as in physical depth, but deep as in philosophically complex. The joke, of course, is that wells are not very thoughtful and are actually quite dumb. So dumb, in fact, that most of them appear incapable of speech.

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rambleonwithrosie · 1 month

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Definitely put it in the tags and comments who your other picks would have been if Tumblr polls allowed multiple selections

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youaretwicemine · 9 months

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Thirst

You stand in the desert First time: I’m running away Second time: get rid of her

Woman of breaking. Seeking water (A spring, a skin) Seeking relief

You hear a voice First time: Hagar Second time: do not be afraid

Where have you come from, where are you going? Does anyone see?

Do you thirst enough to let me save you?

You stand in the desert Seen, heard, found Saved.

Why would you see someone like me?

You stand by the well Jew: will you give me a drink? Samaritan: how can you ask that?

Woman of questions. Seeking water (A jar, a well) Seeking relief

Do you know who just asked you for a drink? Where can you get this living water?

Do you thirst enough to let me save you?

You stand by the well Seen, heard, known Saved.

He told me everything I ever did.

Could this be the Christ? I have now seen the One who sees me.

#zaki writes #poetry #hagar #woman at the well #this parallel gripped ahold of my mind and would not let go

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momentsbeforemass · 1 year

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Those people

(by request, my homily from Sunday)

“You’re always talking about the love of God.”

That’s how the conversation started. It wasn’t a statement of fact. It was a complaint.

They were going to straighten me out. To give me the plan for what I should be talking about.

I needed to be talking about their issue, their cause. It’s not a bad one. In fact, it tracks with what the Church teaches.

But as they went on about what I needed to be doing – God faded into the background.

It was all about their issue, their cause.

Until they got to the people who didn’t support their cause. “People you know,” I was emphatically told.

Then the knives came out. And the labels.

The people who didn’t support their cause became “them.” The people who didn’t support their cause became “those people.”

And God? God was nowhere to be seen.

If you’ve ever wondered why I’m always talking about the love of God, this kind of thing is one of the reasons why.

Because the love of God isn’t a coat of New Testament paint. That love, as St. John tells us, is the very nature of God.

The love of God isn’t a nice idea. Or a passing sentiment, a warm glow that’s here for a moment and then gone.

The love of God is eternal and dynamic, the very force behind creation itself.

The love of God is ongoing and intimate.

As St. Paul tells us in the second reading, “God proves His love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”

That love is the ground of our believing.

And, as we just heard in the Gospel, that love is first given to “those people.”

The thing is, “those people” are not just out there somewhere. “Those people” aren’t just members of some group. “Those people” aren’t just the ones who don’t see things our way.

Every one of us has “those people” in our lives. Every one of us has someone we’re hoping will change.

Maybe it’s a child who’s adrift or a family member who’s setting themselves up to fail. Maybe it’s a friend who’s not making good decisions or a loved one who’s struggling with addiction or mental illness. We’ve all got “those people” in our lives.

We’re hoping and praying for them, but right now – it doesn’t look like anything’s happening.

We’re believing for the best for them, but right now – it’s like they’re moving backwards.

When that’s all we’re seeing, it’s easy to get frustrated. To think, that’s just the way they are. To see them as stuck. To write them off as “those people.” Even though they’re our people.

But that’s not what they need. They don’t need our help finding faults, they know them all too well.

They need someone who will show them mercy, not judgment. Someone who will believe for them, even when they can’t believe for themselves. Someone who will meet them where they are, and who will love them too much to leave them there.

Someone who will wait for them.

That is the example that Jesus is showing us in today’s Gospel, with the woman at the well.

Their meeting is no accident. As St. John tells, Jesus “is tired from His journey” and “His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.”

Jesus could have gone with them. Instead, He sat down and chose to wait. For her.

Look who Jesus chose to wait for. She’s a Samaritan, part of a breakaway group that refused to worship at the Temple in Jerusalem. And that’s the nicest thing you could say about them. Long story short, good and godly Jews had nothing to do with Samaritans. The Samaritans are “those people.”

Then there’s her personal life. Five marriages. Five divorces. And now she’s living with number six. She is a train wreck. Even to the other Samaritans, she’s one of those “those people.”

This is someone who knows rejection all too well. This is someone who doesn’t think much of herself. This is someone who’s been beaten down by life. She is definitely one of “those people.”

And that exactly is who Jesus is waiting for.

Look what Jesus says to her.

If you know the culture of the first century, then you know what it really means. It’s why the disciples were amazed when they saw them talking.

Jesus asks her for water, but with a familiarity reserved only for close family members.

Jesus speaks with her as if He had known her all His life.

She’s one of “those people.” And Jesus is talking with her – like she was His sister.

But it’s not just how Jesus says it. It’s what Jesus says to her.

Jesus doesn’t pretend things are perfect, but Jesus doesn’t judge her either.

Jesus gets to the heart of the matter. But instead of beating her down, He lifts her up and shows her mercy.

Jesus doesn’t choose sides. For Jesus, there’s no such thing as “those people.”

That’s the example that Jesus gives us. That is how you and I are supposed to treat “those people.”

But if we’re honest, we’ve seen this one before. In our own lives.

How many times has God waited on us?

How many times has God waited on you and me when we were adrift or setting ourselves up to fail?

How many times has God waited on us when we weren’t making good decisions or we were struggling?

How many times have you and I been “those people?”

I don’t know about you, but I lost count years ago.

Today, let’s take a moment to thank God for all those times He waited on us. All those times when we gave Him every reason to say, “I am so done with you.” All those times when anyone else would have walked away.

All those times when God didn’t. When God showed us mercy, when God stayed and helped us pick up the pieces.

Then, let’s follow the example of Jesus. And answer God’s call to wait on someone else, someone who’s adrift, someone who’s not making good decisions.

Will you pray for them and encourage them? Will you show them mercy and let them know that you care? Will you love them?

Will you show them how God treats “those people?”

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dramoor · 2 years

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(Via The Apostolic Encourager)

#Lord Jesus Christ #Woman at the well #Christian

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mysteriouslyjollyheart · 11 months

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#god is good #hope #faith #encouragement #woman at the well #fight of faith #i love jesus #praising god #god loves you #original meme #my memes #godwins

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quietdisciple · 1 year

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#woman at the well #Messiah #Jesus #Jesus Christ #King of Kings #Christianity #Lord of Lords #Christ #The Christ #The Messiah #The Chosen #gif #religion

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ultrachoppedpenguinbouquet · 1 month

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Samaria

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#Assyrians #Baal worship #Bible #Capital of Israel #Elijah #Exile #Jesus #Jezebel #King Ahab #King Hoshea #King Omri #Nothern kingdom #Samaria #Woman at the well

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graceandpeacejoanne · 2 months

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Women Disciples: Jesus's Call to the Samaritan Woman

After discovering twelve elements in Jesus's call to discipleship, imagine my astonishment when I saw them repeated in the fourth chapter of John's Gospel. #WomenDisciples #Egalitarian #Mutuality #WomanattheWell #SamaritanWoman

Matthew is the teaching Gospel, giving instruction on what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Mark’s Gospel shows the whole arc of Jesus’s impact on those disciples. Luke gives many snapshots of the Jesus and the disciples’ ministry. John focuses in on individual stories, giving a whole chapter, for instance, this story, the account of Jesus’s call on the woman at the well in Samaria. The…

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#call to discipleship #Egalitarian #equalitarian #Gospel of John #Jacobs well #John 4 #mutuality #Samaritan WOman #twelve calling elements #woman at the well #women disciples

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thatdykepunkslut · 3 months

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Taylors wift is just elon musk for horse girls and gays who are afraid of faggots

#punkblogging #if any of y'all call me a fucking misogynist for this #I literally almost exclusively listen to women fronted bands it's not because she's a woman #I even listen to pop sometimes!!! (I mean not radio pop but still)#she is just fucking lame as a human being and she's an awful songwriter and an industry plant in the exact same ways as musk #I could say this about most men in the music industry as well but no one is out here fucking worshipping... idek I literally #do not know enough men fronted bands to put together an example

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melvingaines · 8 months

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Man's Thinking - Audio Message - September 10, 2023

https://akronalliance.sermon.net/22172074 Pastor Gus Brown

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#condition #Exodus #John #Luke #Moses #think #well #woman at the well

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helpfromheaven · 10 months

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Joining Jesus at the Well

John 4:4-8 He had to go through Samaria on the way. Eventually, he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ��Please give me a drink.” He was alone at the time because his…

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#Faith #Holy Spirit #Hope #inspiration #Jesus Christ the Lord #John 4 #living water #Trust in the Lord #woman at the well

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iterumvivere · 10 months

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The Samaritan Woman

Introduction I’ve written about this bible passage before with a retelling and a reflection on the story. This is a new retelling in the first person, from the Samaritan woman herself. Previous articles are in links at the end. Also known as The Woman At the Well. A first person account of a familiar story. The Water of Life Discourse between Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the…

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#Christianity #Faith #Jesus #living water #Messiah #Prophet #samaritan woman #Water #woman at the well

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positivebeatdigest · 1 year

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Jesus Met the Woman At the Well

#youtube #woman at the well #cl franklin #sermon

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therevlisad · 1 year

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Three Prayers Inspired by Jesus and the Woman at the Well, John 4

Woman at the Well by Wayne Forte Jesus answered her, “Those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” – John 4:14-15 You Answer by Lisa DegreniaWe are…

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#Holy Spirit #Jesus Christ #John 4 #Living water #thirst #truth #wholeness #witness #woman at the well #woman of Samaria

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