COME

John 4:29 – COME, see a Man Who has told me everything that I ever did! Can this be [is this not] the Christ? [Must not this be the Messiah, the Anointed One?]


This statement wraps up a very fascinating encounter in scripture – Jesus and a Samaritan woman at a well at high noon. Apparently it was the woman’s job to draw the daily water supply from a well, enough to meet the needs of the home. I know it’s hard for us to imagine such strenuous work just for a cup of water or for a bowl full to wash a dish, but this was life back then. I’m sure it took multiple trips to and from the well, all the while carrying several pounds of water in heavy vases. The reason this woman chose to do this job at the hottest part of the day was because she knew no one would be there. For she was the town harlot, the object of all gossip, and shunned.

After her encounter with Jesus, however, something dramatic happened. Christ asked her with all sincerity where her husband was then proceeded to tell her that He knew she didn’t have a husband, that it fact she had five former husbands and was now living with a man. They continue talking about living water and true worship, and then Jesus drops the bomb that He in fact is the long awaited Messiah.

Now this is the part that trips me up. The woman believes Him and receives Him but then she does an interesting thing. She goes back into town, the same town that has shunned her and shamed her, and tells them to “Come see a Man who has told me everything that I ever did!” The miracle is that verse 30 says, “So the people left the town and set out to go to Him.”

Why would these town people believe a woman they despise and look down on? How can the town floozy turn evangelist in one afternoon? Because she had a true, spirit filled encounter with the Living Water and everything from that moment on was different about her. She was so emboldened by this transformation that the very people she was trying to avoid became the target of her testimony. Oh, that we would be so touched by the living God that we would tell others to Come. We needn’t worry what they will say or do, how they will receive us, whether they will be converted or not. Our hearts desire should just be “Come.” Come and see what He did for me!