The woman at the well is a powerful reminder that we must never be too quick to judge whom God can use.
Jesus knew everything about her life. He knew she had already had five husbands, and that the man she was presently with was not her husband.
Yet Jesus did not walk away from her.
He did not disqualify her from receiving revelation.
Instead, He sat beside the well and spoke to her about Living Water.
“Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.”
John 4:14
Jesus exposed the truth of her life, but He did so in a way that led her toward revelation rather than rejection. When she realised He knew what no ordinary stranger could have known, she said
“Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.”
John 4:19
Then something extraordinary happened.
Jesus entrusted this woman with one of the clearest revelations of His identity recorded in the Gospels. When she spoke of the coming Messiah, Jesus answered:
“I who speak to you am He.”
John 4:26
Think about that.
A woman whose life others may have considered morally complicated or unacceptable became one of the people to whom Jesus personally revealed that He was the Messiah.
She left her waterpot, ran back into the city and cried
“Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
John 4:29
And because of her testimony, many Samaritans came to Jesus and believed.
She arrived at the well carrying an empty vessel, but she left carrying a message.
She came looking for natural water and became a carrier of Living Water.
She came as a woman with a past and returned to her community as an evangelistic voice pointing people to Christ.
What people might have used to disqualify her, Jesus did not allow to prevent His purpose.
This does not mean that Jesus ignored truth or called sin righteousness. He spoke directly concerning her circumstances. Yet His truth was accompanied by grace, revelation and invitation.
There is a lesson here for the Body of Christ:
Be careful whom you dismiss.
Be careful whom you label unusable.
Be careful whom you judge before God has finished His work.
We often look at someone’s present condition, while Jesus sees the person they can become after one encounter with Him.
God has always chosen unlikely vessels.
He used Rahab.
He used David despite his failures.
He used Peter after his denial.
He used Paul, once a persecutor of the Church.
And He used a Samaritan woman whose testimony caused an entire community to come and investigate Jesus for themselves.
Ultimately, the vessel belongs to God.
“But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.”
1 Corinthians 12:18
We are called to discern rightly, but we are not appointed to become the final judge of another person’s destiny.
The Lord knows every heart, every hidden story, every weakness, and every purpose He has placed within a life.
The woman at the well teaches us that an encounter with Jesus can turn the very person others whisper about into the person proclaiming, “Come and see!”
Do not underestimate what Christ can do with one surrendered encounter.
There may be people standing beside their own “well” today who look completely unlikely to us.
Yet God may already see an evangelist, or a vessel for His purposes.
Jesus still gives Living Water to thirsty people—and He still chooses unexpected vessels through whom entire communities may hear His Name.
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Denise Sylvia Bruning
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