THE SAMARITHAN WOMAN : A Prostitute or Superwoman?

You’ve probably heard the story of the

Samarithan woman. A persevering woman who held on to what she believed regardless of what

people thought of her. Abi isn’t that the story you

know?

Okay lemme tell you some things about this

woman.

1) She had been married 5times and the man she

was currently living with was not her husband.

Five marriages didn’t make her a sinner (Due to

warfare, famine, disease, and injury, men in those

days dropped like flies. A widow became either a

beggar, a prostitute, or another man’s wife. Each

time, this Samaritan woman had chosen the best

option) but living with a man she wasn’t married

to was a sin

2) During biblical times drawing water and

chatting at the well was the social highpoint of a

woman’s day

So why did she come to the well alone? That was

just weird.

Why am I writing about the Samarithan woman?

because I feel there’s a lot we can learn from her.

1) A CHANGE FROM THE ORDINARY

This woman clearly needed a change in her life,

she had gotten to the point where she was fed up

and didn’t even care about going to the well with

other women to draw water from the community

well. (Off course she had been ostrasize by others

cause she was apparently living in sin) She knew

that being with a man she wasn’t married to was

a sin and she accepted it, she didn’t try to lie or

feel embarrass about it (which is the normal

reaction) when Jesus asked her, she had gotten

to that point where she just said “to hell with all

these laws of marriage” marriage is not what I

need, what I need is Jesus (the messiah).

2) THE CONCIOUSNESS OF JESUS

Even as someone who doesn’t know God (which

Jesus pointed out), she longed for a change and

she knew it was only the messiah who could give

her, only the messiah could quench her thirst and

hopefully change the stupid laws. She carried the

consciousness of the messiah so much that she

was not ashamed to tell a total stranger about

him. She didn’t care about the stranger seeing

her as weird or laughing at her or mocking her, a

woman who was clearly living in sin talking about

the messiah what the hell was she talking about.

This was her conviction, her messiah and she

was concious of him.

3) CONCIOUS OF HER CONVICTION

Are you concious of your conviction your

aspirations, your dreams, the things God has put

in your heart to do. Do you let people talk u down

because of your current position/situation this

woman was ostracised that was why she came to

the well alone but she didn’t let the mockery of

people (because she wasn’t living wrh her

husband) put her down she still held on to her

conviction and one faithful day it manifested.

Halleluyah.