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This is one of a number of monologues that I have written for use in worship or some other reflective purpose. This one deals with the events of the meeting of Jesus with the Samaritan women at the well from the point of view of the Samaritan woman.
Come and See This Man!
John 4: 1-41
You’ve got to come with me now. You can’t miss this opportunity. You’ve got to meet him for yourself. No. Let me slow down. You’re only getting half the story if that. Let me just take a few moments to catch my breath. Then it will make more sense. Then it will all fall into place for you. Then you’ll understand what it is I’m trying to tell you.
It all started as a normal day when I got up this morning. I had the chores to do, the food to prepare, all the usual sort of thing. There was nothing out of the ordinary. Soon it was noon and I could go out to the well and draw water. There'd be no one else there then. But there was. And that’s where I met him. He asked me to give him a drink of water. He simply just came up to me in my ordinary, everyday, activity and spoke to me.
When I turned to look at him I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was a Jew. Can you believe that One of those ultra clean people asking me a 'filthy Samaritan' for a drink I suppose I must have realised that my world was about to be turned upside down. No. All I could do was to stand there with the water jar in my hand and stare at him. And all he did was to stare right back at me.
I felt like his eyes were seeing right through me. I felt like he was looking deep into my soul, my very being. I felt that he was learning everything that there ever was to know about me. In that look he knew me totally and completely.
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