---All her life she had heard the arguments about where was the proper place to worship.
It was a question that defined her as a Samaritan, competing as they.jpg)
were with the Jews in Jerusalem.
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People that she knew and respected insisted that Samaria was the place where God where God was focused.
It had convinced her that all that was needed to please God was the right location. Worshiping in the “right” place and drinking from this special well had become an empty tradition, unable to purge her guilty conscience.
So she posed this question to Jesus. “Where is the right location to worship?” She leaned forward slightly to hear the answer.
Jesus fixed His truthful, gentle eyes on her. “Woman, true worship is not about having the right place; it is about having the right heart.”
Q: How is it with you?
So she posed this question to Jesus. “Where is the right location to worship?” She leaned forward slightly to hear the answer.
Jesus fixed His truthful, gentle eyes on her. “Woman, true worship is not about having the right place; it is about having the right heart.”
Q: How is it with you?
Q: Has your ecclesiastical tradition become just another hole in the ground that sustains your existence but hinders eternal life?
Lessons From This Story:
God is looking for you (But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. John 4:23).
His Word cuts into our soul (For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that Thou art a.jpg)
prophet. v. 18-19).
You look up towards heaven, and say “I need a Savior” (The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. v. 25).
He reveals Himself and accepts you (Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am He. v. 26).
Your priorities change (The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? v.28,29).
God is looking for you (But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. John 4:23).
His Word cuts into our soul (For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that Thou art a
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You look up towards heaven, and say “I need a Savior” (The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. v. 25).
He reveals Himself and accepts you (Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am He. v. 26).
Your priorities change (The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? v.28,29).
There are no human solutions
to the deep needs of our life."
Gerry Waggoner