(continued from the last post)
Jesus continues his conversation with the Samaritan woman:
“He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” (John 4:17-18 NIV)
Why did Jesus bring up her marriages in between this spiritual discussion?
As long as we inattentively plod through life, we stay bogged down in our own preoccupations and perspectives. In order to see clearly, we need to take a higher road. Once we are able to acknowledge our faults, we can use them as footholds to climb higher. We have to see our iniquities clearly before we can accept God.
Then Jesus told her, “I AM the Messiah!” (John 4:26 NLT)
Jesus prompts us to face the truth about ourselves before he reveals the truth about Himself.
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