This picture and story speaks volumes to me: more than most will understand. I could be this woman! My past before Jesus was anything less than spotless and perfect. I was one who said, ' If I walked into church it would burn" despite being raised in one most of my life. Childhood trauma, bad experiences with people, life, relationships all took me down the wrong paths and away from God and to the wrong people and searching for the wrong things. Things that may have made me happy for moments or days, but nothing that made the happiness last. I couldn't understand how a loving God could allow some of the things which had happened in my life to happen and it took me at my bottom, my worst, and about to lose everything before I realized God didn't do it: I DID, with the choices I had made. When I began surrendering to God's will and listening to His voice and stop listening so much to mine, things began to fall into place. I desired peace! A peace that could only come from knowing God. From following His word. From the moment, I, like the woman at the well, drank from the water of life, I had a new desire. It was not that I had not sinned, but that Jesus forgave my sins, and told me to go knowing he no longer cared, as long as I did not not continue in my sinful ways. Now I am not going to say I do not sin or that I have not since that day at the well, but I am more aware, I want to be held accountable. I want to be better, do better and live a life that is worthy of Him.
