1653) It’s uncanny how you can look at something year after year and see one thing, and then, one day, you can look at it and see something different. What do I mean?

I have read John 4:1-30 many times through the years. I feel drawn to the event where Jesus goes to Samaria and sits at a well, waiting for a woman to come and get water. As many of us know, Jesus speaks with her, discussing two types of water. He says, Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. This is not the place I saw something different.

Jesus then asks the woman to bring her husband and she replies she doesn’t have one. He informs the woman that he knows she had 5 husbands and is currently living with the 6th. She’s astonished Jesus knew this.

Here is where I saw something different. When I read verse 29, Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did, I assumed she meant one thing. I thought she was merely saying something like: He told me where I lived, who I lived with, etc. Basically, I’ve always thought the woman just meant Jesus knew facts about her that someone outside her life wouldn’t know. Now I see something different.

Yes, the woman may have meant that this man, Jesus, could tell her things about herself no one else would know but, maybe she meant, He revealed to me he knew what a sinner I am (you know, the 5 husbands thing) and still accepted and offered salvation to me. Maybe THAT’s what she meant. Either option is valid.

Just think, Jesus knows everything about us and still offers us salvation. He even wants to spend time with us, even though we make the bad choices we do.

Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.