Disciple or friend

                I want to share something about the story of the Samaritan woman at the well that is found in John 4. Jesus and the woman are not the only characters mentioned we also have the disciples. I am afraid to say I and most of us today are a lot more like them than we are Jesus. Jesus was busy meeting a need and doing the father’s work. But because of prejudice and lack of vision they could not see the work he was doing. All they wanted to do was eat their food and move on to Galilee. They wanted no part in Samaritans. They could only see what was convenient for them not the opportunities that God has given them.

 John 4:27-38, “²⁷ Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” ²⁸ Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, ²⁹ “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” ³⁰ They came out of the town and made their way toward him. ³¹ Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, at something.”³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” ³³ Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?” ³⁴ “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. ³⁵ Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. ³⁶ Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. ³⁷ Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. ³⁸ I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

I decided to add the scripture because I wanted you to read it. We do not want to be like the disciples; who for whatever reason, could not see that every person they came into contact with had worth in God’s eyes. If you don’t believe that than I challenge to change your thinking Scripture tells us, “²⁷ So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Gen 1:27) If for no other reason we should love every person we meet. I challenge you to be more like the four men in this testimony found in Mark 2: 3-5. “³ Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. ⁴ Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. ⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” They loved their friend so much they carried him to Jesus because they understood he was the only one who could bring salvation to him. DO we care enough for those around us to carry them to Jesus or are we just too busy with the world to show them He cares? Love you all and praying God does a beautiful work in you today.