Reading a famous section of the Bible today, where Jesus \u2018had\u2019 to go through a ‘bad part of town\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you know Jesus (or the area), you know He didn\u2019t \u2018have\u2019 to at all – but He had decided to meet a specific person at a specific time for a specific person.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This person had no idea that He was coming to meet her – nor did she know who He was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was a despicable person, shunned by her whole town (likely slut shamed) – a dirty sinner. Yet this is the very type of person Jesus came to save.<\/p>\n
He had set a time where He would invade her world as she \u2018just’ tried to survive in her seclusion and shame.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jesus breaks all the cultural norms to let her in on a powerful Truth: He knows her hidden sin – all of it! Far from being condemned by Him, He offers her new, fulfilled, eternal life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The result? She leaves her means of survival and goes to the very people who hated her, sharing news of this God-Man. The whole town comes to meet Him – and would forever be changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are so many parallels with the way Jesus pursued me\u2026what about you?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just as the woman at the well had a foreordained appointment with the Saviour – so did I! He purposed to meet me in my deepest valley, in the wilderness at the very cliff and gave more than \u2018just\u2019 forgiveness but a whole new life, nature, purpose and destination.<\/p>\n
How I long to be as effective as sharing with others as her!\u00a0<\/p>\n
#undeservedmercy
#neverthesame
#undeniable
#thankYouJesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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