Knowing God - John 4:17

(from Pastor)

You are right in saying,

'I have no husband’

John 4:17

 

In our generation, it seems like everybody has a past. Few of us would make it past the purity police -- especially in terms of previous marriages and past relationships.

 

The woman at the well -- whom Jesus is talking to in this verse -- is the patron saint of messy pasts. Five former "marriages" and "the man you're living with now is not your husband."

 

Some Christians don't tolerate tarnished pasts. Jesus wasn't one of them. It's not the past that matters, but the present and the future. Jesus had just told the woman at the well about "living water." Yes, it quenches our thirst, but even more so, Jesus longs to use it to wash us clean.

 

What in your past haunts or tarnishes you? May the living liquid of his grace wash you clean.

 

In Christ's Love,

a guy who needs to shave his head

(so my forgiven self will look as clean as Mr. Clean) 

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I will admit - I am ashamed of my past. But it has shaped who I am today - a fact I am trying to recover from.  Our pasts have a way of searing into our thoughts who we have been told by humans who we are. Not who God thinks we are.  Christ washes us clean.  He loves us anyway. He doesn't care about what we did. He cares about us loving him.  serving him.  despite being tarnished pots.