Bible Reading: John 4:1-30
Key Verse: Verse 18 - “For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.”
Key Words: For thou hast had five husbands
Much could be said about the Samaritan woman but if you would stop and think, she was living like a natural person would live. But after she was saved, the first thing she did was find all of her “sweethearts” so they could be saved as well. While you may not approve of her lifestyle, she was responsible for more souls being saved than the average believer today.
George Sweeting, in his book The No-Guilt Guide for Witnessing, tells of a man by the name of John Currier who in 1949 was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Later he was transferred and paroled to work on a farm near Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1968, Currier’s sentence was terminated, and a letter bearing the good news was sent to him. But John never saw the letter, nor was he told anything about it. Life on that farm was hard and without promise for the future. Yet John kept doing what he was told even after the farmer for whom he worked had died.
Ten years went by. Then a state parole officer learned about Currier’s plight, found him, and told him that his sentence had been terminated. He was a free man.
Sweeting concluded that story by asking, “Would it matter to you if someone sent you an important message – the most important in your life – and year after year the urgent message was never delivered?”
We who have heard the good news and experienced freedom through Christ are responsible to proclaim it to others still enslaved by sin. Are we doing all we can to make sure that people get the message?
Praise God that these men had a sweetheart who cared!!
What to do:
✞Tell others what Jesus has done for you.
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