6/28/25
#5MinutesofFocus
"Don't Judge A Book"
[27] Just then his disciples came back (from the store - according to John 4:7-8 MSG). They were shocked. They couldn’t believe he was talking with that kind of a woman. No one said what they were all thinking, but their faces showed it.
John 4:27 MSG
In the text, The disciples had formed an opinion about the woman Jesus was talking to based solely on the fact that she was a Samaritan.
They didn't know anything else about her, they hadn't bothered to talk to her.
Jesus was the only one talking to her. He was willing to give a her chance even though it went against the social and religious norms of that time.
Never let society, social media or anything else decide who you can and cannot communicate with.
Forming a negative opinion about SOMEBODY IN YOUR HEAD and letting it show on your face is not of God. That's why Jesus had sent the disciples to the store, He knew how they would respond.
Put yourself in that person's position and try not to judge, because we all need Jesus in one way or another when the wells of life run dry.
She didn't have anybody else she could talk to who was really hers, who was really there for her. The man she was living with certainly wasn't and Jesus called her out on it in John 4:16-18 NIV
She had lost pieces of herself being in one failed relationship after another, after another. So, She needed Jesus more than the physical water she thought she was there to receive, initially.
Jesus who had left Judea, went back to Galilee and came through Samaria to a town called Sychar just to be there for her.
John 4:3-4 NIV
She needed Him, more than she needed her next drink (of water), more than she needed to be in a relationship (at that time). She needed the living water, getting to know Him & receiving Him as The Messiah her soul has been longing for could provide.
Can you relate?
If so, Don't judge a book by its cover because we all are uniquely flawed.
Enough with the looks the disciples were giving her.
Study John 4 for yourself!!
LPS~ Love, Prophetess Stacy
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