Well Women

John 4: 1-26

Sexual sin, I didn’t realize that was a category. Sexuality wasn’t something talked about in my home growing up. I mean, not even the minimum of knowing value as a young girl. The moment I realized what men wanted was when I knew I had to stay two steps ahead at all times. Using what they tried to get what I needed, even if it was just shelter, played a part in staying alive.

The root of my sexual sin started as a child with being abused. I knew what he wanted, and in return, I received a false sense of security and love. The need to feel significant and wanted even to be desired. All this started at the age of 4 years old. Not even understanding this emotion was unhealthy and toxic—the condition of having some psychotic loyalty to someone that would do this to a child. My poor soul was broken, and what I thought was completing me was only leading to misery.

Over 20 years of my thirst for love and acceptance, I led off my own perspective. The need to create nuclear families that would not survive the weight of time. Building illusions because I was too scared to expose the truth. Thirsting for that living water only to find out it truly lives in and runs through Jesus Christ

In John 4:4 lies the truth in women who thirst for things of this world only to find life and truth in our savior and his redeeming love.

Jesus met a woman at the well and asked her for a drink. Thirsty and drained from his travels.

This woman was shocked by His willingness to speak to her, a woman of Samaria. She failed to see the depth of the question asked. Jesus explained that he carried living water, the kind of water that she would never thirst after drinking. She warned him of the danger of the conversation of what voyagers would assume. Being known as a sexually thirsty woman, she was shamed of what could be presumed.

I was shocked that he would even be seen speaking to her.

Jesus reminded her of who he was and who could be sitting before her eyes. The truth revealed from her past made it clear that he wasn't an ordinary man. Jesus tells her there will be a time when all is forgiven. The thirst that she craves. Looking for any and everything to fulfill that thirst only God could satisfy.