A Place For The Weary

John 4:6

Jesus, our Lord, is weary! He has been on a long journey to meet just one downcast woman in whom he sees as precious. She has been rejected by men, society, and religious people. But yet Christ comes to her. Not in strength and power, but weary and humble. He is sitting by Jacob’s well and she is coming to to draw from it. What an opportunity for good when these two worlds collide.

What lessons can we learn from this most beautiful of all sacred text?

First we learn just how human Jesus was. He was tired, thirsty, and weary. It’s hard to imagine that God in the flesh could feel this way, but yet we see just how much he identifies with our physical and spiritual challenges.

Second we learn that he went all of this way to speak to one person, and not a person of nobility, fame, or even respected, but one who was despised and rejected of men. Jesus could identify with her pain because as Isaiah said, he too would be despised and rejected of men. But what we learn from Jesus is that he took a far journey from heaven to earth to die for all men and women. Even if you or I were the only one!

Last off all we learn from Jesus that there is a place we can go to when we are weary. He went to a well to meet this woman. You and I go to the well to meet with him! He not only meets us at the well, he is the well of living water that springs up to everlasting life. When we are tired and thirsty, we can go to him and find rest near to the heart of God…for Jesus is the heart of God!

There is an old hymn we sing that says “There is a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God.”

I know that we all are weary and heavy ladened, but there is a place of refreshment that we are invited to at any and every moment of our journey. But what makes this place so special is that it is not the place, but the person who is waiting there for us! The person of Jesus Christ!

Jesus said “If any man thirst , let him come unto me and drink.” (John 7:37) Meet with Christ today and let him fill your cup so that it may run over and bring refreshment to your dry and thirsty soul.

Pastor Robby