“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” ~John 4:29

When Jesus meets the woman at the well in Sychar, he shares with her about the water he has to give which springs eternal.  She is perplexed by this foreigner.  A Jew, he shouldn’t be friendly with her, a Samaritan, she says.  And yet he asks her for water- and then shares that he has a water that, if she would take it, would become a “spring of water welling up to eternal life.”  Hearing this, she asks for a drink of this water.  And then he asks her to go get her husband. “I am not married,” she replies.  “Yes, I know- you have been with 5 men, and your now with your 6th.”  Wow.  Some history, I think.  But he continues to talk with her.  And talk with her.  And talk with her- until his disciples show up and wonder what is up.  And the woman leaves, and goes into the town, and tells whoever that she has found the Messiah.  “Come, see- is this he?”

What strikes me in this passage is that as Jesus begins to share with her that he has living water she should want- he swerves off in the conversation, to talk about her.  And by the end of it, she realizes and knows that he knows her.  And he knew her without even meeting her before.

God knows us.  He knows our faults and failings.  He knows our infractions and idiosyncrasies.  And when given the chance, he will meet us and listen to us.  And given the chance, we will realize that all we want to tell him about our trials and triumphs in life, he knows.  He has been there with us through it all.