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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for collecting daily manna), make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Monday, May 21, 2018
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:Jesus and the Woman of Samaria [3] Bible Verse:John 4:16-30 (ESV) "Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. Angel illuminated Bible You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” They went out of the town and were coming to him." Message:
Here we get the great surprise. The Hebrew Messiah comes not to save Israel, but to save humanity. This will become a contentious issue in the early church and require a lot of effort, especially from Saint Paul, to convince the Jews that the unclean, heathen Gentiles have shared fully in Christ’s gift.
The Samaritan woman is thirsty in the metaphorical, spiritual sense as well as the physical sense. She comes to the well of Jacob, symbolizing her search for the true God. But she lives in sin; it seems as if she is seeking the God of the Jews, both by her presence at Jacob’s well and by her conviction to worship in Jerusalem (where the Temple is located) rather than in the mountains, which are full of pagan idols and altars.
To give her a sign of his authority, Christ does what he did with Nathanael: He tells her things about herself that an ordinary man could not have known. Specifically, he speaks of her sinful sexual life, both past and current, for she is living in adultery with another woman’s husband.
But Christ tells her that God is not found in a building and cannot be worshipped physically. (This will mean, ultimately, an end to the constant sacrifices of food and animals required by Hebrew worship.) Under the new covenant, God, who is spirit, will be worshipped “in spirit.”
Finally, Christ openly acknowledges that he is the Messiah about whom she has heard, a rare moment in any of the Gospels.
Meditation : Prayer : Now all glory to you, great God, who is able to keep us from falling away and will bring us with great joy into your glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to you who alone are God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are yours before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time!......Amen |
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