A Drink For A Drink

I have invited you here today to look at one of the bible female characters whom story has been woven and knitted into the fabric of the scripture. Her life is not one that was not always perfect or of purpose. As a matter of fact her life, her conduct, her behavior and values are quite questionable. I really didn’t come to reopen the life of this woman of the bible for demogration, or castigation. But we have landed here because I have recognized that in the best of us there is some bad, and in the worst of us there is some good.

And what I have found out is that, if everyday is a classroom and life is a lesson. That means that in every life there is a lesson to be learned.

And I believe that the bad that we have pointed out that is lifted from the scripture about this person’s and her personality, can contribute positively to our own, personality or persona. In other words looking at this woman’s bad situation could possibly make us better people. (STOP) [And I pray that we have come to this place this morning with a mindset that says feed me until I want no more].

I’m really interested this morning in each of us coming to an understanding that every encounter, every incurrence, every episode, incident and event in our lives can be use too development us, and to enhance our dimensional growth.

I also believe what goes on in our life can heal us, or hurt us. What happens in our life can destroy us or develop us. The choice is base upon how you choose to see things. Because what I have learned in these latter years of my life, is that many of us are personally affected by things that people say and do.

Many of us assume that what other say, and what they do are personally direct towards us. But many things that effect us was not intended for us, there are some things that have hit home with us because we have chosen to allow ourselves to be exposed too some people that don’t mean us any good. That’s why negativity can grab us so easily, that’s why bad thought can enter into our hearts so quickly, because we have expose ourselves.

We have heard a lot of negative statements about people and some of it was true and some of it was not true. Not only that but we have we seen through scripture or heard of some of the negativity about even this women at the well.

But don’t look down your nose on her to quick because there are other women in the scripture that have had some problems also. There are others women in the bible that have had some bad reputation. Such as Ms. Eve [the one who was deceived by the devil], we have seen Ms. Pothiar wife [the one who tried to have an illicit love affair with Joseph. We have seen Lot’s wife, the who left her heart in Sodom and Gomar, [because she couldn’t help but look back and see what was going on in her old neighborhood, and when see looked back see turned into a pillar of salt]. Then we have also seen Ms. Delilah [the one who had her own barber shop in her own house, the one that who could not resist the hair cut of her lover Samson] and now we have come to another woman in the bible that could possibly help us see ourselves a little clearer, the women at the well, the one that is dying for a drink.

And I have brought you to this passage because it is exciting, it’s extensive, it’s full of encouragement. It is full of lessons that you and I can magnify on what just could have been just a well side conversation, but instead it has been magnified through the exposition and revelation of the Holy Ghost that bring us to an perspective and an angelic conversation that Jesus had, one that can brings a transformation and alteration to our lives.

And so when we come to meet this woman of chapter 4 of the gospel of John, the one that I have decided to label A Drink for a Drink. I need you to know that I have been taken by the fact, that first of all this woman is only known by her location, and not by her name. She’s known by where Jesus first met her [PAUSE].

If we wanted to do some archeological research or go to her city and do some geology studies to figure out who this woman family was, we couldn’t even began, because we are not supplied with a name, and that’s because she is just call the women at the well. And that’s all she is remember by is the women at the well. What a disturbing attribute, only to be known by your location of where you might hang out.