Knowing God

You may wonder . . . Do I matter to God? Does God know me? Does he care about me and what is happening to me. My friend - He knows you and has brought you out of the desert into a sacred oasis filled with living water.

One day a long time ago Jesus and his disciples stopped in a small town of outcasts and stopped a women who had been married many times and was at that time living with a man who wasn't her husband. Jesus was thirsty after walking all day and wanted a drink of water.

In a day and age when men did not talk with women this was an amazing conversation and even more amazing is that this scorned woman, someone we might even judge and not think very highly of, it was this woman, that Jesus chose to share his true identity.

You matter to God - you have and you always will.

If you haven't asked the Son of the Living God to come into your life, confess your sin of unbelief, and trust the work that Christ did on the cross for you and the living water of eternal life will fill your life with the energy of the Holy Spirit. You are now a child of the eternal God, his temple, his sacred dwelling place.

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman 

"So he (Jesus) left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

“I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her,

“You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” John 4: 3-26 (New International Version)