3rd. Sunday in Lent - Christ offers the Living Water from God!

This week’s Gospel John 4:5-42  reminds us that our God is a God of surprises. In the story of the Samaritan woman, we see Jesus conversing with someone he shouldn’t have been. According to the social rules of the day Jesus was forbidden to speak to a woman unaccompanied- even more so a woman who was not Jewish! Yet his conversation with the woman at the well brought followers to God through her excited testimony. 
 
 We as Christians believe that each person is created in the image of God. Yet often we don’t acknowledge, notice or truly listen to those around us. Take some time to reflect on our Gospel reading this week and recognise how much might have been missed if Jesus had not chosen to ask the Samaritan woman for a drink- or if she had ignored his request, as would have been socially acceptable? Whose invitation to know God better might you be missing? Take a moment this week to start a conversation with someone new. They might give you a fresh way to see God! Amen.
 
The message was presented by Pr. Allan Taruste.