(JOHN 4) WOMAN AT THE WELL

 

WOMAN AT THE WELL

TO BEGIN
SHE WAS A WOMAN
SHE HAD NO RIGHTS
EXCEPT THAT GIVEN BY THE MAN WHO OWNED HER

 

HUSBAND
FATHER
BROTHER
UNCLE
DOWN THE FAMILY TREE

 

A JEWISH MAN
DID NOT WILLINGLY SPEAK TO A WOMAN
NOT HIS KIN

 

IN FACT HIS MORNING PRAYER WAS

THANK YOU GOD FOR NOT MAKING ME
A WOMAN
SLAVE
OR GENTILE

 

BESIDE THAT SHE WAS A SAMARITAN
LOWER THAN A WOMAN
ALMOST A NON-PERSON

 

BUT THIS JEWISH GENTLE MAN
HAD APPROACHED HER
WHILE SHE WAS AT THE WELL
AND ASKED HER FOR A DRINK

 

WHAT SURPRISED HER
BEYOND A JEW TALKING TO A GENTILE
WAS THAT HE ASKED HER FOR A DRINK POLITELY

 

SHE’D BEEN USE TO BEING ORDERED ABOUT
NOT ALWAYS CIVILLY
AND NEVER WITH A PLEASE

 

HOW CAN YOU A JEW SPEAK TO ME

IS YOUR THIRST THAT GREAT
 

IF YOU KNEW WHO I AM
YOU’D KNOW
I CAN GIVE YOU LIVING WATER

ONE WHO DRINKS OF IT WILL NEVER THIRST

 

YOU HAVE NO PITCHER
AND THE WELL IS DEEP
HOW CAN YOU GIVE ME
THIS LIVING WATER

BUT IF YOU CAN
GIVE ME SOME
SO I CAN STOP COMING TO THIS WELL

 

GET YOUR HUSBAND

 

I HAVE NO HUSBAND

 

YOU HAVE HAD FIVE

BUT YOUR PRESENT MAN
IS NOT YOUR HUSBAND

 

ARE YOU A PROPHET
OR BETTER THE MESSIAH

 

TELL ME WHICH TEMPLE IS BETTER
OUR OR YOURS

 

BOTH TEMPLES
ARE GOING AWAY

FOR GOD WILL BE WORSHIPPED
AS HE CHOOSES

 

FOR
GOD IS SPIRIT
 AND HIS WORSHIPERS
MUST WORSHIP
IN THE SPIRIT
 AND IN TRUTH

BUT WHEN WILL MESSIAH COME

 

THE ONE WHO SPEAKS TO YOU
IS HE
 

HOW MANY TIMES IN OUR ORDINARY LIFE
DOING MUNDANE THINGS
LIKE GOING FOR WATER
DO WE MEET JESUS

AND REFUSE HIM A DRINK
OR THE TIME OF DAY

FRANK A VOLLMER