A Journey to Sychar

A Journey to Sychar

Standing alongside you
Dear sister
at the well running dry

A native and
A traveler
likewise in our guilt

Standing alongside you
Dear sister
as he tells us who he is

The source of
Living water
the Messiah for all

Standing alongside you
Dear sister
proclaiming the Good News

Two fractured souls
Redeemed by the blood of
whom the Father glorified

Very well put. Is this based on an actual event?

I placed myself (as I often do)in the middle of a bible story. In this case, it was when Jesus confronted the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well on his way to Galilee. The town she was from was called Sychar. When Jesus confronted her about her sin, she suspected he was the Messiah. He then confirmed he was. After that, she became elated and told everyone in town about the Good News.

Every time I read this story, the Holy Spirit grabs hold of me and shakes me to my core. I am reminded of the time when I had to confront my sin. I was told there was a remedy for it. I rejoiced and told others, just as the Samaritan woman did. It's one of my favorite stories in the bible because I feel a strong connection with her. We have both done terrible things in our lives, yet the promised Messiah has taken the penalty for both of us.

John 4
4:5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the well: [and] it was about the sixth hour.
4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
4:8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
4:9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
4:15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
4:18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
4:24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.
4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am [he].

Thank you Oyster 67, for sharing. There's no better way to tell this beautiful story than in the KJV.

Got it, the reference to the Samaritan. Very well put.