The "Well" Moments of Life

THEME: Being the Ambassadors of the Living Water.

Pastor Jimmy gave us multiple illustrations of how we are to “go to the wells” in our

lives, using the factual narrative of Jesus at Jacob’s Well with the Samaritan woman, as

he spoke to us this past Sunday. Through this story, he showed us how Jesus took life's

physical aspects to bring the spiritual into focus, and how He brought true healing to

those who were lost and hurting. The simple act of asking for water from a hopeless

woman began the change in her and the entire village forever, spiritually. This Biblical

story, combined with Pastor Jimmy’s story of the man in the parking lot of our church,

was designed to lead us to seek out or be aware of those “well” experiences in our lives,

and, once we find them, to accept possible discomfort and unease to meet that person

where they are at that moment. This is where our spiritual life meets reality, in the same

way God incarnate met the daily needs of all He met, from providing food and healing

infirmities to spending time reaching a hopeless outcast at a well. We, too, must not

isolate our spiritual lives from the messiness surrounding us.

Look at the drawers the next time you are standing in your kitchen, bedroom, or desk. I

know it is an odd request, but as you do so, think about how each drawer contains

different elements of our lives. In the same way, many Christians live functionally

compartmentalized lives. Whether they realize it or not, they have divided their lives

neatly into separate drawers: real life and spiritual life. Jesus never did that. The biblical

worldview has only one drawer—it is called the gospel in everyday life. Everything in our

lives and how we live daily goes in that one drawer, as God has a radical, single-drawer

purpose for our lives. The best word for that purpose is ambassador. An ambassador

represents the ruler who sent them, every day, all the time, and in everything we do.

Therefore, our purpose in life is to make the invisible presence of Jesus visible in the

lives of others. We are the look on Christ’s face, the tone of his voice, and the touch of

his hands. We are the physical representative of his grace. This is our mission in every

situation, location, and relationship of our lives, in all our “well” moments. 

A small church in a community had on its sign, "We Care about our Community." Under

that statement read, "Sunday, 11 AM." We display our love for Christ and are like Him

when we demonstrate His love through acts of service at our “wells.” Jesus spoke of the

“Living Water” to the Samaritan woman. In this “Church Age,” we are the vessels of the

same living water of which Jesus spoke, and we must always care for our neighbors,

not just on Sundays at 11 AM. 

Just as Pastor Jimmy did with the man in the parking lot, and over 100 of our brothers

and sisters did on Serve Day, we are to “Be Life” to the world around us, going out of

our way to be the vessels of God’s Living Water to those who are thirsty for what they

do not know…..yet.

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SCRIPTURE: 2 Corinthians 5:20‬ NIV‬‬‬‬‬

“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal

through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.”

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PRAYER:

Lord, let me come to know the reality of who I am in you. In that reality, teach me what

you felt as you constantly merged you being God with the reality of this fallen world. Let

me grasp how you sought out the “well” moments in your life and never turned your

back on the needs of the hurting and lost, and how we, at this time, are your

ambassadors and vessels of your living water. Amen.