Tell What Great Things God Has Done for You – Come See a Man!
Are you allowing others’ testimony to keep you quiet about yours? What makes your testimony so genuine and impactful is that it is YOURS. No one can tell your testimony – sure, they can tell what happened; but with sincerity, passion, insight, and even revelation, that testimony is yours and should come from your heart to your lips and be breathed forth from your very being. Tell your story – someone needs to hear it.
Here is the dilemma: what if the person who witnessed to you would have remained silent? What if the person who prayed for you would have remained quiet?
John 4:1-30
Jesus had a ministry opportunity that no one knew about but Him. He went to a city in Samaria to meet a woman. She would only come to a particular place at a certain time of day, and He knew this. Weary within Himself, He saw her – the woman that He was looking for. She was drawing water from Jacob’s well, just as He knew she’d be. He asked her, “Give Me a drink.” She said to Him, “You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
Jesus was not interested in her historical or theological arguments; He was interested in her soul. He said, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” She attempted to distract Him once again, but He had come for her and He would not leave without bringing about the change she needed – no matter what she was doing to avoid the divine confrontation. Jesus said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
This was something she wanted; this was something she knew she needed. She said, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.” Jesus said, “Go call your husband, and come here.” She knew the truth; although she had five husbands, the one who she was with was not her husband. It was a situation.
At this point, there was no more hesitation, theological debating, nor delays. Jesus said to her that it does not matter where you worship. God is a spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. The woman realized and said, “I know that Messiah is coming. When He comes, He will tell us all things.”
Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” This is one of the divine opportunities where Jesus speaks and reveals, without a shadow of doubt, that He is the Messiah.
Once Christ revealed Himself, the woman left her water pot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, “Come see a man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” A wonderful truth of this story is that many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” In fact, the Samaritans urged Him to stay with them, and He abided for two days. Many more believed because of His own word.
Friend, Christ has revealed Himself to you perhaps in many ways. Which one of these ways will you testify of Him to someone who needs to hear your words? Now is the time. No more hesitating or debating. Share your story of Him satisfying and fulfilling your innermost needs and how those needs are still supplied to this day.
