| Patience and PrayerPosted Jun-11-08 06:35:57 PDT Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
John 4:13-15
The woman at the well mistakenly believed that if she received the water Jesus offered, she would not have to return to the well each day. She was interested in Jesus message because she thought it could make her life easier. But if that were always the case, people would accept Christ's message for all the wrong reasons. Christ did not come to take away challenges in our lives, but to change us from the inside out and to empower us to deal with problems from God's perspective. The woman did not immediately understand what Jesus was talking about. It takes time to accept something that changes the very foundations of your life. Jesus allowed the woman time to ask questions and process what she was hearing and to put the pieces together for herself. Sharing the gospel will not always have immediate results in the lives of others. But when you ask people to let Jesus change their lives, give them time to figure things out on their own. Patience and prayer are the keys when witnessing about God's Grace.
God bless you,
JH
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