Revelation of Truth

Beloved, what is keeping you away from embracing the gift of God? With what, or whom, are you occupied? You become so occupied with the things of worship, that you can’t recognize the “things of God” (see 1 Corinthians 2:11). So overly concerned are you with “where to worship”, you completely fail to see “Whom to worship”.

Like the woman whom Jesus “had to go through Samaria” to meet, you too know many things – she knew that Jesus was a Jew and that Jews “have no dealings with Samaritans”; she knew that the well was “very deep”; she knew that “father Jacob” gave the well and that he, his sons and his livestock drank from it; she knew that she had no husband; she knew where the ancestors worshiped and where the Jews say “one ought to worship”. 

This woman at the well knew many things concerning the worship of God, but did not know “the gift of God”. She did not know the saving grace, mercy, and love of God; she did not know that she was lost and in need of salvation; she did not know to Whom she was speaking, Jesus Christ, the Messiah – she did not know God.

Knowing the rules, rituals and traditions of the church is not knowing God. Knowing the Bible from cover to cover is not knowing God. Knowing things about God and the acts of God is not knowing God. 

Jesus, with His sixth utterance, steers the woman away from all her religious observances to what is truly divine – He points her in the direction of true worship…

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the time will come when people will not worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes. But the time is coming and is already here, when by the power of God's Spirit people will worship the Father as He really is, offering Him the true worship that He wants. God is Spirit, and only by the power of His Spirit can people worship Him as He really is.” – John 4:21-24 (GNT)

Jesus shows the woman that it’s not about what, when, or where, it is about and only about, Whom – her question and yours should be “Whom to worship and how do I worship Him?” Worship must be spiritual, not religious, not occupied with “self”. True worship goes beyond what you do with your five senses, true worship must engage your spirit. 

God requires and desires you to worship Him not in the flesh but “in spirit and truth”.

Before, the Samaritan woman’s eyes had been opened, but now, this revelation of truth spoke right to her heart (see Hosea 2:14).

Amen†

Revelation of Truth

Shelley Johnson March 27, 2017