Confront & Encounter

I'm starting the week off in John 4.  All I can say is that there are some HUGE things that we can take from that passage and more than anything I see Jesus as being radical and controversial, in other words, Jesus wasn't some blue eyed decaf sipping white boy.  In this passage as with so many others in the Gospel, you find an incredible confrontation with Jesus.  Jesus initiated the confrontation and stepped out of cultural expectation when He asked the Samaritan woman for a drink, Jesus went where the need was and I know He is calling us to do the same, to feed the hungry masses and not handing out samples to people who are already being fed.

The next thing I see in this encounter is that in order for us to truly experience the grace of Jesus, in order for us to experience salvation, we must come face to face and confront the sin that separates us from Jesus.  Too many times people say a prayer or "make the walk," or "raise their hand," without truly confronting their sin head on.  Just like in this situation in John 4, God is trying to REVEAL that sin in our life...we must take the blinders off and confront it.

Just like with the woman at the well, an encounter with Jesus causes transformation from the inside out. John 4:28-29.  God does not leave us the way He found us, we can definitely come as we are but not leave that way...this woman's way of life changed that day, her thinking changed, her attitude changed!!!