The Woman At The Well

As far as I can tell, the very first person that Jesus Christ revealed Himself directly to as the Messiah was the Samaritan woman by the well. Think about that for a second. She wasn't a king or a high priest, she wasn't even a Jew, but rather a Samaritan, for whom the Jews would take long detours to avoid and would take long ritual purifications if they ever unavoidably came into contact with them. Nor was she someone who necessarily had her life put together. Yet Jesus told this woman He was the Messiah before telling anyone else. We may at times feel small and unworthy. We may feel that Christ has bigger fish to fry, or to worthier causes to lend His aid, and that besides, we've screwed up too badly and too often for even Christ and His infinite love to find a place for us in His heart. There is no such thing as being too far away from the Savior, of having used up too many chances. That woman by the well in Samaria had a hard life and she tried so many times to pick up the broken pieces of her heart and start again only to have her hopes and dreams dashed again and again. Her soul was crying out in thirst for something, anything that was real and constant, something that could give her life purpose and meaning, something that would make everything she had been through worth it. And the Savior offered her living waters, that her soul would never have to thirst again. We don't deserve it, we couldn't have expected it, we may never understand it, but Christ loves us with a passion and a fierceness and a loyalty and with such great tenderness and kindness that will never dry up or run out. He is with us for the long haul, through thick and thin, and His grace is an ever present source of strength and wisdom and meaning in our lives. We never have to feel lost or alone or hungering and thirsting after righteousness and purpose when we have the Savior's love as a living well springing up inside of us. And just as with the woman at the well in Samaria, Christ will reveal some aspect of His mission and His being to us in a way that He has never revealed to anyone before.