救人灵魂的耶稣
约翰福音四章1至14节
1主知道法利赛人听见他收门徒,施洗,比约翰还多,
2(其实不是耶稣亲自施洗,乃是他的门徒施洗,)
3他就离了犹太,又往加利利去。
4必须经过撒玛利亚,
5于是到了撒玛利亚的一座城,名叫叙加,靠近雅各给他儿子约瑟的那块地。
6在那里有雅各井;耶稣因走路困乏,就坐在井旁。那时约有午正。
7有一个撒玛利亚的妇人来打水。耶稣对他说:「请你给我水喝。」
8(那时门徒进城买食物去了。〉
9撒玛利亚的妇人对他说:「你既是犹太人,怎么向我一个撒马利亚妇人要水喝呢?」原来犹太人和撒玛利亚人没有来往。
10耶稣回答说:「你若知道神的恩赐,和对你说『给我水喝』的是谁,你必早求他,他也必早给了你活水。」
11妇人说:「先生,没有打水的器具,井又深,你从那里得活水呢?
12我们的祖宗雅各将这井留给我们,他自己和儿子并牲畜也都喝这井里的水,难道你比他还大吗?」
13耶稣回答说:凡喝这水的还要再渴;
14人若喝我所赐的水就永远不渴。我所赐的水要在他里头成为泉源,直涌到永生。」
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我们从经文看到,耶稣实在是刻意来到井旁,等待与那位妇人有谈道的机会。这正好带出一个值得我们思考的问题:我们多久没有主动去接触别人?当我们想推辞某项工作,许多时候都会托辞太忙太累。此刻的耶稣确实很累(6节),可是,祂却没有逃避祂的责任,依然抓紧机会与那位妇人谈道。而且,在谈道之后,祂更发现疲累的感觉比前大减哩!(参看34节)。
耶稣与那名妇人素未谋面,怎么开始话题呢?祂没有用惊天动地的说话来打开话匣子,反之,祂只是用平常的说话与她交谈:祂请她给祂一点水喝。基督是否在一大清早便祷告父神,求神带领祂去拯救一个极需救赎的人?这种祷告,确实是神喜欢垂听和应允的。今天,你也可以求神赐予这种与人谈道的机会,并在日常生活之中儆醒留意祂的带领。
耶稣如何由闲谈,逐渐将话题带到属灵的事情上呢?祂首先引起那名妇人的好奇心,然后待她主动发问,祂的回答便直接触及她那空虚的心灵。请留意,那名妇人主动说了不少,基督一直显得乐意聆听。我们呢?我们是否只争着说话?我们是一个怎样的聆听者?
祷告:
主啊,求你带领我走进别人的内心,
主啊,求你教导我的口说当说的话。
Jesus The Soul-Winner
John 4:1-14
1 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John
2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),
3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.
4 But He needed to go through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Message
Jesus really went out of his way to meet this woman. That brings up a good question for each of us: How long is it since we went out of our way to touch a life? We use the excuse of tiredness very often, when we don't want to do something. Here Jesus was absolutely weary (v.6) but he still gave himself to the task of talking with the woman. He even found that he was less tired afterwards than before! (See v.34)
How did Jesus approach this woman? He used the ordinary circumstances watch for his answer.
How did Jesus turn the conversation to spiritual matters? He made the woman curious and as she began to talk he touched her unsatisfied heart. Notice how much of the talking was done by the woman herself. Christ was willing to listen. Are we? Or are we too often wanting to do all the talking? What kind of listener are you?
Prayer For Today:
"Lead me to some soul today; Teach me Lord just what to say.'

