Heard, Seen, Believed
In a quiet moment by a well, a woman burdened with shame whispered a hope rooted deep in her heart: “I know that Messiah is coming… When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Her longing wasn’t theological curiosity—it was a cry for someone to make sense of her story. Jesus looked at her and said the unimaginable: “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
This is the first time in John’s Gospel that Jesus publicly declares his identity as the Messiah—and he chooses an outsider, a Samaritan woman with a complicated past. Her transformation is immediate. She leaves her jar behind and runs to her village, proclaiming, “He told me everything I ever did.” She didn’t recite doctrine or quote Scripture—she simply shared her encounter.She discovered a God who knew her story and didn’t recoil. Her shame became a doorway for others to encounter grace.
Charles Spurgeon writes, “A personal testimony is the gospel’s most effective weapon. We may not argue like apologists, but we can say what Jesus has done for us.” The villagers came, curious. And when they met Jesus, they urged Him to stay. He stayed two days—and many more believed, not just from her words, but from their own experience. “Now we have heard for ourselves,” they said, “and we know this man really is the Savior of the world.”
Jesus still meets us at unexpected places—at wells, in weariness, and in wounds. And when He reveals Himself, we’re invited to share, not polished answers, but personal encounters. As others come and listen, many will go from hearing about Jesus to knowing Him for themselves.
Prayer:
Lord Jesus, thank You for meeting me in my brokenness and revealing Yourself as the Messiah. Help me to share my story simply and faithfully, so that others may come, hear, and know You as the Savior of the world. Amen.
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