The woman answered and said, I have no husband, Jesus said unto her, Thou has well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
In affluent America, thousands of us Christians have become too comfortable.
We are too much at ease in this world. We have ceased to challenge the world in which we move; and if God wanted to do a great work in our time, we would probably be bypassed.
In John 4:9, we read, the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. The disciples might have thought that the Samaritans were totally outside the kingdom of God.
Perhaps they thought these “outsiders” were unreachable and untouchable by the message.
How many Christians have given up trying to win their neighbors, their business associates, or their school friends to Jesus Christ?
Sometimes, we think they are totally uninterested.
Perhaps that friend or neighbor is watching you very carefully to determine whether you back up your belief with your life.
Some of us have already made up our minds that God has no intention of reaching this person and that – they are too hard: they are not interested; they are so material-minded; they are so filled with sin, lust and pride that they are unreachable.
I would like to share with you an experience not long ago, a close friend and I were sharing with each other some of the things that the Lord had done in our lives.
He reminded me of a statement that had been made in his presence and as result of this statement, it brought about a great change in his life.
And he took the time to share with me the statement that had been shared with him: “I would rather be poor and without here on Earth and live for Christ down here and have treasures in heaven.”
As a result of this statement this young man is on fire for Christ and is now sharing the good news everywhere he goes.
Thus, when the woman of Sychar who had six “husbands” was converted to Christ, the disciples were not used.
Many people in history who have been used of God were great sinners and seemed unreachable.
John Newton, who wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace,” was a slave dealer in Africa and one of the worst sinners who ever lived.
Who could ever have believed that he would one day be a clergyman in the Anglican Church and become one of the greatest hymn writers of all time?
Even Paul, the apostle, was Saul, the persecutor.
Many times, God takes the absolutely impossible person and transforms him/her by His own grace and mercy and providence to become a mighty servant of God.
Don’t give up on anyone. There is no person beyond the grace of God. I would just like to remind you of these scriptures Genesis 18:14a “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”
Jeremiah 32:17 reads, “Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:… Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.”
According to St. Luke 1:37, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”
