This is something I shared with our Sunday School Class. I love how children are eager to hear about Jesus.
1Jesus sat on the wall of Jacob's well. He and his disciples had been travelling from Jerusalem to Galilee and they took the quickest route through Samaria. It took them hours and sometimes days to go from one town to the next.
Tired and thirsty Jesus stopped in Sychar while his disciples went into the city to buy food.
One of the Samaritan women came to get water from the well, lowering her water pot down into the well and drawing it back up again. As she did so Jesus asked her for a drink.
The woman was shocked because Jews had no dealings with Samaritans and she told Jesus this, wondering why he had spoken to her. Jesus told her that if she knew the gift of God and who it was that asked her for water she would have asked and he would have given her living water. (Read John 1:10-14)
The woman then asked Jesus to give her that water so she wouldn't be thirsty again and wouldn't have to come to the well. Jesus went on to talk to the woman telling her things about her life that only she knew and wondered how he could know. (Read John 1:22-24)
The woman told Jesus that she knew when the Christ came he would tell them all things and Jesus said to her "I am he".
The disciples came back at this point and were surprised to see Jesus talking to this woman but none of them said anything and she went off into the city and told the people who she had met and that he knew everything. The people started coming to Jesus to hear what he had to say.
Jesus knew he had to talk to these people because they needed to hear the truth about God. The people wanted Jesus to stay and he taught them for 2 days. They all said to the woman, "we believe now because we've heard what he had to say with our own ears and we know he is the Saviour of the world", and many Samaritans accepted the gift of God which is eternal life in Jesus.
The woman at the well was changed. She met Jesus and her life was never going to be the same.
When Jesus touches our lives something inside changes and we want other people to know who he is, this is what happened to the woman of Samaria. She was touched by Jesus when he spoke to her at the well and she went into the city to tell everyone about him.
Sometimes Jesus asks us to do that, to go and talk to our friends to tell them about how much he loves and cares for us all. If you hear Jesus in your heart asking you to tell your friends, don't be afraid ... Just tell them. He will do the rest.
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