“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”
“You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”
John 4:9-10, 12 CSB
Jesus lived His life truly, He was not moved by the culture into sinful ways, like prejudice or callousness. He genuinely cared for this woman and went straight to what mattered the most, her spiritual needs…even though that was not what she wanted to be talking about.
She instantly compares Jesus to the greatest humans that she knew about, implying that Jesus must be weaker, or less of a provider. She will soon find out that Jesus is far greater than anyone we could compare Him to.
Lord, help me to think of You as the great, powerful, rewarding, caring and infinite God You are…not as an amplified version of a good man. You see my heart and are not moved by cultural norms…You go right to the thing that matters most. Allow me to see others the same way.
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