John 4:4 (KJV)
And he must needs go through Samaria.
The Saviour’s need
Travel from Jerusalem north through Samaria was the most direct route but it led them through the area of what most Jews thought were the “unsavory” characters - Gentiles and half Jews. There was no earthly need to travel that direction. But we see in the text that there was an eternal one.
Our Saviour is all God, all knowing, all powerful. There is nothing He cannot do. There is nothing He does not possess. But our Saviour has placed Himself on a mission and that mission sets certain needs. There is the need to be where people are. Specifically there is the need to be where people who need the Lord happen to be.
He must needs to through Samaria because there was this woman at the well.
Since our Saviour ascended to heaven He has passed on the responsibility of reaching those souls to the believers - you and me.
The Saviour’s need has became our necessity. We must needs go….
- We must needs go to town and cities, we might otherwise never go.
- We must needs go through neighborhoods and communities we would generally pass around.
- We must needs speak to people we may never have otherwise spoken to.
- We must needs travel to places we would never have thought of going to for any other purpose.
It might not be comfortable.
It might be out of our way.
It might involve conversations we find difficult.
It may mean missing a meal we might have had.
But our Saviour needs us to go through those places because there are people there who need to hear the Saviour’s message.
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