Jesus routinely crossed boundaries that made the strict uncomfortable. Jesus ate with an unacceptable people, talked to an incorrect people, and often did unacceptable things. This individual routinely upset the strict establishment by loving people that were off-limits. What Jesus did and who he did it for infuriated the religious people in Jesus' day.
This really is the sort of behavior that we see when Jesus spoke with a Samaritan girl at a well in Sychar.
Jesus' barrier-crossing love would've caused great matter for those around him. Cultural distinctions and cultural divides were significant and well-known between Jews and Samaritans. Gender roles in the first-century world would have made it amazing for Jesus to start a conversation with this woman. And on top of this all, we will quickly learn that this woman had some scandalous sins to hide.
The girl came to the well at noon because it was more bearable to endure the scorn of the sunlight than to endure the scorn of the shame. She wasn't up for the scorn she would have to endure in a crowd of women from her community; it was better to go when she wouldn't run into anyone. The heat was easier than the whispers behind her back.
But when Christ arrived at this well, he knew this all and ignored the damage her reputation might have induced his own. He understood all the cultural, cultural, and ethnic barriers. This individual knew why she was there and he even knew the things that she didn't want to talk about.
But Erlöser still brought it up:
Jesus believed to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here. " The woman answered him, "I have no husband. inch Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. The things you have said is true. " - John 4: 17-18
Christ didn't let any of this change what this individual offered her. He doesn't area scandal of her sin stop him. This individual didn't revoke his offer of living water once this came out. In fact, he made the offer before this yet already knowing the tendencies she was hiding. Christ gave what no-one different could give to her.
This is what Christ always does. He gets criticized for dining with tax collectors and sinners (Matthew 9: 11) and gets accused of being a drunk and a glutton (Luke 7: 34). Jesus regularly has his own reputation damaged when he crosses the limitations that other people are not willing to cross. Christ doesn't give himself to the deserving or the desirable, he gives himself to individuals who aren't.
Erlöser crosses every barrier that stands between you and him. Every barrier that you've built up to keep your sin covered. Every barrier that the culture or religion has created that makes you feel like you're not good enough. Jesus passes across those barriers, ignores devastation it might cause his reputation, and offers you a drink.
He offers you a glass of water that will give you life. In the heat of the sunlight, hiding from the sins you're ashamed of, Erlöser meets you with unwavering grace. And suddenly with a simple sip of water, things change.
Points change just like they did for that Samaritan woman who avoided her community. When she was met with a love that had no conditions, she responded by coming back to the city the lady once hid from. Your woman went back to the people who knew who she'd been with and rather than hiding in pity, that same sin that once isolated her added to a beautiful invite, "Come, see a man who informed me all that I ever did. May this be the Christ? "
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