Me: How does it look outside today?
Prodigal: It’s as dry as the heart of a haystack.
Me: Maybe rain will come soon.
Prodigal: Only the Lords knows.
This is from the book You Can Change by Tim Chester
In John 4, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well at noon. “Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun,” sang Noel Coward. you gather water in the cool of early morning. But she comes at midday to avoid the rest of the community because of the shame she feels. After she’s met Jesus, however, she runs to the community she’s been avoiding and says, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did”. The good news for her was that Jesus told her everything she had ever done and still offered her living water! She no longer had to hide. And it’s this testimony that draws the townspeople to Jesus. We can confess our sin to one another because there’s no longer any need to hide. Grace sets us free.
There is no need to hide. We all have shame at times and still Jesus loves us and gives us living water anyway.
Psalm 94:9
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
