21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will -neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
25 The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things."
26 Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He."
27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with her?"
John 4:21-27 (NKJV)
Comments:
So far the woman at the well has gone from searching for regular water to living water, from seeing through worldly glasses to seeing things in a spiritual sense. This new outlook has caused her to start searching for God. In today's passage Jesus tells the woman He is the way. She is led down a path where she is able to see that she needs a savior, and then Christ reveals Himself to her.
Jesus also teaches us something about worship in this passage. The Jews and the Samaritans were very ritualistic but what Christ reveals is that true worship is more than that. He says that true worship is true worshipers worshiping in spirit and truth. And that The Father is seeking such worshipers.
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This is our purpose as creations of Christ. The Father desires us to worship Him with our very essence. Amen
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