Fully Known and Loved

Good morning Immanuel. Only Jesus can make what should be the worst moment of our lives into the best.

“So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people,  ‘Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?’” (John 4:28-29)

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The moment of being “found out” is the worst moment of many people’s lives. When the addiction or the affair or the fraud comes to light, the person exposed feels completely ruined. Many think of their deepest sins being exposed as their worst nightmare. Some of us have lived that nightmare. 

For the Samaritan woman at the well, however, her moment of being “found out” was not the worst but the best moment of her life. Jesus sees that she is living with a man who is not her husband. He notices that she is drawing water in the middle of the day, hiding from her village in shame. And He gives her the completely free “gift of God”, the “living water” that quenches our thirst forever. The woman drops her water jar and hurries into town, bearing witness to Jesus, and many believed because of her testimony.

What person can make what should be the worst moment of our lives into the best moment? Only Jesus. How does her moment of rock bottom become her moment of rebirth? It is simple. This woman experiences what every Christian has experienced: the amazing freedom of being fully known and fully loved by God.

“To be loved but not known is superficial. To be known but not loved is our nightmare. Only Jesus knows us to the bottom and loves us to the sky.” - Tim Keller