Jacob Chronicles for Kids: Volume 2, Issue 7

The Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah

The Verse

Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

The Story

Jesus left Judea when He heard the Pharisees were plotting against Him. They resented His popularity. And His message challenged their teachings.

So, Jesus traveled back to Galilee.

He could have taken the worn-down path. It would have led Him across the Jordan River to Perea. From there He could have easily gone around Samaria and north to Decapolis. Once in Decapolis, Jesus could have crossed back over the Jordan River and into Galilee.

But Jesus didn't take the worn-down path. For, He told me, He had to pass through Samaria. He'd had a divine appointment with me since the beginning of time.

He was sitting on the stone bench with his back against Jacob's well when I first saw Him. Shade from the Cypress tree offered relief from the white-hot sun.

He asked me for a drink, but I just laughed. No Jewish man would ever ask for a drink from a Samaritan woman. We are the mixed race from long ago when Israel, under King Hoshea's reign, fell captive to Assyria. The Jews have hated us since our return to Israel.

But when He told me He brought a gift, He had my full attention. He said His gift was living water.

But He had nothing to draw with. Then I asked Him, "Where do you get this living water?"

And do you know what He said? "Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

Then He told me everything I had ever done. I suspected He must be a prophet. But then He said to me, "I am the Messiah."

I dropped my water pot and ran as fast as I could back to Sychar. I approached the men of the city and said to them, "Come, see a Man who told me all the things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"

The men, dressed in robes as white as the harvest, sprang to their feet and ran down Mt. Gerizim to the Messiah sitting at Jacob's well. And, because of my testimony, they believed in Him.

Jesus stayed with us for two days and then left for Galilee. Truly, Jesus is the Messiah who came to save lost sinners, like me, the day He walked through Samaria.

How is your walk? Do you follow in Jesus' footsteps, or do you follow the crowd around?

The next time you start to follow the crowd around, remember:

"For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

"For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him."

John 3:16-17 (NASB)

Now go and be the beautiful feet that bring the good news of salvation to all people!

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