Fearless Bravery - Laetitia Zeeman

September 2019 I told a pastor friend that God is constantly taking me back to the woman at the well in the Bible.  Many times God will wake me at three in the morning, talking to me.  I have been “there”, meditating on the woman at the well but I still didn’t understand why God constantly took me “there” , "again" and "again". 

 

I already spend lots of time at the well, becoming the woman at the well. I will see myself dressed in her clothes, standing before Jesus, looking into His loving blue eyes.  I will feel the heat, the sun burning on my skin. I will even smell what the woman at the well might have smelled. I will see how I draw water from the well and then I will also see how I serve and give Him the water.  

I love being in His presence. Obviously I don’t have the full revelation yet because why am I revisiting it time and time again?  God is most definitely trying to show me something.

The Woman at the Well

"A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink', you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks, drank from it?"

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life." 

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you have said is true!" 

The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." 

Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." 

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us." Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to you."

I can relate to this woman because I also have been (in relationships) with six men and the sixth one was not my husband either.  I also know the spring of living water inside me and I am constantly drinking from Him, have no desire to drink from any other well ever again but then why is God still taking me there?

There is something hidden I don’t have the revelation yet that God is trying to show me.

My pastor friend shared something very interesting:   

“According to history, the Samaritan woman at the well is a figure from the Gospel of John, in John 4:4–26. In Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic traditions, she is venerated as a saint with the name Photine (also Photini, Photina, meaning "the luminous one" from "light").

In Eastern Christian tradition, the woman's name at the time of her meeting Jesus is unknown, though she was later christened "Photina". She is celebrated as a saint of renown. As further recounted in John 4:28-30 and John 4:39-42, she was quick to spread the news of her meeting with Jesus, and through this many came to believe in him.

Her continuing witness is said to have brought so many to the Christian faith that she is described as "equal to the apostles". Eventually, having drawn the attention of Emperor Nero, she was brought before him to answer for her faith, suffering many tortures and dying a martyr after being thrown down a dry well. She is remembered on the Sunday four weeks after Pascha, which is known as "the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman".

My Conclusion

When you compromise what the word instructs, it will always lead to destruction. Life is full of challenges but if we obey and allow the Holy Spirit to bring conviction and deal with your character your life will be filled with continuous fruit and His love.  

When you honour Him and others and live a life of holiness, God will always bless you. It’s when we make choices and move outside the parameters of what God set for us to keep us safe, that we get hurt.  

I now seek His face constantly, continuously.  He is and will always be my first love.  I rest in Him.  I am entangled to Him. In quietness and confidence is my strength.  I have no desire to ever again move outside the parameters of God’s protection.

 I am worshipping Him in Spirit and in Truth.

The end of my story is not what happened to me or what I did.  I got up and I am fulfilling my destiny regardless of what happened to me in my past.  I am not my past.  I am actually the hero in my story; not because of my own accomplishments but because I died 2000 years ago and it is no longer I who live but Christ Who lives in me.

Because of the I Am, I AM.  I am moving forward - in FEARLESS BRAVERY!