Jn.4:39 – Now from that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me all the things that I have done.
God’s ways are never like our ways. In the story of the woman in Samaria at the well the Lord took a woman of questionable character, changed her life with His words, and then He used her story to change an entire city. She was so overwhelmed at the acceptance and love from Jesus as well as His prophetic insight into her life that should could not stop talking about the encounter she had with Him at the well. The town was buzzing because of her story and soon found themselves gathering to hear the words of Jesus for themselves. Here is how Matthew Henry describes this phenomenon.
“God is sometimes pleased to use very weak and unlikely instruments for the beginning and carrying on of a good work. Our Savior, by instructing one poor woman, spread instruction to a whole town. Let not ministers be either careless in their preaching, or discouraged in it, because their hearers are few and insignificant; for, by doing good to them, good may be conveyed to more, and those that are more considerable. If they teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, a great number may learn at second hand. Philip preached the gospel to a single gentleman in his chariot upon the road, and he not only received it himself, but carried it into his country, and propagated it there. See how good it is to speak experimentally of Christ and the things of God. This woman could say little of Christ, but what she did say she spoke feelingly: He told me all that ever I did. Those are most likely to do good that can tell what God has done for their souls…”
This is exactly what the Lord loves to do. He takes someone in their misery, changes their lives with His words, and then changes the world through their story. What happens is that your life becomes a sign and a wonder to your world. People see the changes the Lord has done in you and recognize that God is alive and at work in your life. This is the joy of our faith, being used by God to change our world.
