A Personal Encounter with Jesus

John 4: 1-26

Wow, I wonder what I would say if I met Jesus at the water fountain one day at school, especially if He asked me to give Him a drink and I didn’t have a cup! Such a thought makes me wonder, would I recognize Jesus, or would I be like the Samaritan woman that had no clue it was the Messiah?

Hopefully I would be able to recognize Jesus, and I would do whatever I could to give Him a drink of water. However, that leads me to think about all of the times that people cannot recognize Jesus in me. We make Jesus unrecognizable in our lives when we let Satan get a hold of our hearts and deceive us into sin.

I can’t imagine how embarrassed I would be if a man at the water fountain began telling me about all of my sin that I thought I had hid secret in the depths of my heart. But the hard truth is, Jesus is not just a man and we cannot hide anything from Him, no matter how much we think we can. Just like the Samaritan woman had a personal encounter with Jesus, every time we open our Bibles, go to church, sing worship songs, or have a prayer time, we can also have a personal encounter with Jesus. We have to be willing to accept His living water and let Him penetrate our hearts so we can get rid of the sin we hold “hidden”.

Therefore, I pose a challenge. Every time you take a drink of something, go to the water fountain, open your Bible, take a shower, or do whatever you do, ask yourself: “Would someone be able to recognize Jesus in me and what would Jesus have to say to me at the water fountain?”