In this episode, I share more about how this truth has played out in my own life — and the steps you can take to make it real in yours.
God Wants You to Experience True Transformation
👉🏻 Take the Samaritan woman at the well, for example, which we read about in John Chapter 4.
Jesus purposefully stops at this particular well at noontime to meet with this specific woman.
Now, the custom was for the women to go to the well in the cool of the morning. But this woman went at the hottest part of the day because she was avoiding other people.
Why? Because she was highly ostracized. As we learn in the text, she’s been married five times and was currently living with a man who wasn’t her husband.
In these times, that was a big no-no. Such behavior was highly frowned upon and she was likely treated very poorly by her community, to put it mildly.
💦 We’re not given the details as to what was behind her behavior and sin. Jesus simply notes that what she is after can only be quenched through a relationship with Him.
This is why He uses the water well as an analogy and says in verses 13-14 (NLT): “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”
👰 This woman had tried starting over. She had tried reinventing herself. She was married to her first husband, then when that didn’t satisfy or make her who she desired to be, she moved on to another man. And so on.
Maybe she even made some resolutions along the way, who knows?
❤️🔥 But God wanted her to have a fresh start. He wanted her to experience true transformation.
And He met her exactly where she was.
He purposefully stopped at the well when He knew she’d be there.
He focused on seeing her, not fixing her.
He offered her living water — a fresh start.
He spoke truth in love, not shame or condemnation.
And what happens?
She leaves her jar behind as she runs into the village to share what Jesus has told her (which is like a symbol of leaving of old patterns or her old identity)
She willingly runs back into the community she avoided, with a heart to share the good news she heard instead of continue avoiding as many people as possible
She goes from being an ostracized woman, who was weighed down in numerous ways, to God’s messenger
And all of this happened not because she woke up that morning, decided to re-invent herself, and made it happen.
No, it happened because God loved her first.
🌳 Because God met her where she was–weighed down by shame, anxiety, and a plethora of other emotions and challenges–and gave her a fresh start rooted in Him.
It’s not about us re-inventing ourselves or powering through a resolution. It’s about leaning into God’s love and letting Him give us a fresh start. (Whatever that looks like for you.)
