He Yet Speaks! (Week 4 (Jan 2013)
Onigbinde Jonathan.[1]
Jesus
while awaiting his disciples who had gone to get some food met with a Samaritan
woman who was astonished to see a Jew freely and eagerly talking to a
Samaritan. The story in John 4 is a very popular story but some salient things
with spiritual meaning are buried in that scripture.
Jews
left Judea on his way to Galilee but had to go through Samaria. It must at this
point be noted that Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman was not a
coincidence but a heavenly arrangement. Neither did my Lord prepare for such a
conversation. The Lord never had time to research on issues that pertained to
her. Jesus after speaking with her and exposing what seemed to be her secret
astonished her. But things happened, in verse 25, she said; “I Know the messiah
is coming who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything
to us.’ Verse 26, Jesus answered her (the first time he will declare that by
his own mouth), ‘I am the messiah’ in verse 28, the scripture says that, the
woman left her jar and ran into the village.
From
verse 25, it was realized that the Samaritans realized that they were ignorant
of many things and that the messiah was coming to teach them. But her anxiety
over came her and she didn’t even pay attention to verse 26, that she even
doubted it in verse 29. Though she ended up being an Evangelist who won many
for Christ in verse 39-42 yet she missed the rare opportunity of being the
first in the Samaritan race to discover the hidden truths that only the Messiah
can explain. Many Christians this day don’t take time to listen to the content
of his words but are carried away by the expression of his deeds.
Today
God calls and yet speaks. The Samaritans flee was the end to a discussion that
could have given her an exposure into her reason for existence but her anxiety
ended such grace. In verse 29; her message was; ‘come and see a man who told me
everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the messiah?’ But I tried to fathom
what the context of her message would have been if she waited a little more;
‘come, see a man who has told me all that Samaritans never knew, he is the
messiah!’.
This
is a call by God for some who come up and gain access into the deep things of
God. God is saying, ignore the jamboree, ignore the expressions, don’t quiet
me, I yet speak.
NOTE:
UNLESS
YOU HAVE A REVERENTIAL AND WORSHIPPFUL ATTITUDE, YOU HAVE NOTHING OF ETERNAL
VALUE TO OFFER TO A DYING WORLD.
LIFE
IS NOT ABOUT US BUT ABOUT GOD AND HIS GLORY.
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