Jn.4:3-6 – He left Judea and went away again into Galilee. And He had to pass through Samaria. So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; and Jacob’s well was there.
The Jews had gotten the wrong idea about being God’s chosen people. Sure, He had set them apart and called them His own but that wasn’t the end of the story. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son… In the story of Jesus reaching out to a throwaway Samaritan woman Jesus launched and unveiled His mission. He was going to die for the sins of the whole world and send His disciples to preach the gospel and make disciples in every nation. This story was the beginning of world wide evangelism. He started it by calling the least likely woman in the whole land to reach her people. Here is how the Christ Centered Expository Commentary describes this.
“An Israelite needs Jesus and so does a Gentile. Everyone, everywhere needs him. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a universal message. No matter who a person is, no matter what language he speaks, no matter where he calls home, every person needs Jesus. How does this story end? After Jesus dies and rises again, he sends his disciples to every nation, and they go. For two thousand years Christians have followed Jesus’s example and taken his message around the globe. First throughout the Roman Empire, then down into Africa and throughout Europe. After that Christian missionaries went east to India and China and west to the New World. I write this today as a testimony that the need for Jesus is universal. I’m a long way geographically from a well in Samaria, yet I’m in the same place spiritually as that sinful woman.”
Coming to the conclusion that the whole world needs Jesus is where we start if we want to be used by the Lord. We can start in our city New Orleans for example. There are so many pockets of lost people without a clue about who Jesus really is. These lost ones are in schools, universities, your own neighborhood, your work place, living under the bridges, or in prisons and hospitals. They may even be in your very own family. Maybe its time to invite people to come and drink from the well of salvation.
