From @mmm_water ... 2023 Well Season: Daily Devotional

September 1 - October 31 is Marion Medical Mission Well Season for 2023. The season will include daily devotionals - one for each day the U.S. volunteers are overseas, sharing the love of Jesus by providing safe, clean, sustainable sources of drinking water to the extreme poor in sub-Saharan Africa. Marion Medical Mission is one of our mission partners at Grace Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas, and we STRONGLY encourage you to read these devotions to learn more about - and pray for! - their mission.

October 25, 2023

WOMAN AT THE WELL
DiAnne Hughes
Volunteer, Nebraska

"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.” - John 4:13-14

Jacob’s well had been there for a very long time, “since the beginning of time.” It still provides clean water today. The “woman at the well” came in the heat of the day. She did not come in the morning when most women would come with their family and friends. I imagine it would sound a lot like the women in Malawi, singing, talking, laughing. But at noon it would be very quiet. The woman would be there alone.

My ladies’ group has been studying Jesus and Women by Kristi McLelland. It discusses how women in Jesus’s time were low in society, even talking to a rabbi was not acceptable. The Samaritan, a divorced woman, was the lowest of the low. But Jesus loved and respected her. Jesus lifted her from shame to honor. She was to be the first person that Jesus explicitly told that He was the Messiah, the Christ. She became a witness to her community. “Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman’s testimony” (John 4:39).

“He reached out with radical kindness and grace and in so doing, He changed her life” (McLelland).

He wants us to do the same. Reaching out not only to lowest of the low but reaching out to those who may make us uncomfortable. Those who are of different color, ideas, abilities, interest, religion... (you get the idea). Reach out to them to show kindness and to share the gospel.

Application Question: Today, how can you show kindness and grace to one who may be “different”? How can you follow John 4:39 and use your testimony to help others believe in Him?

Prayer: dear Heavenly Father, help me be Your hands and feet. Please, help me see how you see those You love and share Your truth with them. Thank You for the love and grace that You have shown me. Amen

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