The Well at Sychar

© 7/10 Angela Beatty

John 4:5-6

Then cometh he

to the city of Samaria,

which is called Sychar...

now Jacob's well was there.

Jesus therefore being

wearied with his journey,

sat thus on the well...

It never ceases to amaze me that Jesus is so immune to the rules of mankind! What happened that day at the well broke all the rules of the time. Jesus spoke to a Samaritan woman - a group despised by Israel. After Jesus had told her the sin in her life of having five husbands and living with one who was not her husband, he revealed to her who he was. Then he did the unthinkable. In a society where women were a lesser race, Jesus chose to use a woman to stir up the city. He used a woman to start a revival.

If that wasn't bad enough, imagine this. Jesus has just told her about all the illigitimate men in her life. So what does she do? She runs back to the city to tell the MEN about Jesus and brought them to see him! If that isn't a character reference...?

I wonder what would we think if Jesus sat at the well on the wrong side of the tracks in our towns. Would we discount his revival because he used someone "unsuitable" to spark it?

I don't claim to understand it, but sometimes it seems that Jesus enjoyed breaking all of man's rules and accomplishing his purpose on Earth with unlikely vessels. It sometimes appears that Jesus is looking for willingness to spread the word more than a perfect vessel.

It makes me wonder if He chooses to do a work in my sphere would I be available or would he need to go to the well?