Daily Bread Content


I AM HE!

Date : Jan 24, 2018
Passage : John 4:16~30
Keyverse : 26

1. Go, call your husband and come back (16-26)

Jesus' love was very painful and not superficial as a surgeon uses a knife to heal the sick. He touched her sore spot saying, "Go, call your husband and come back." She said, "I have no husband." To her surprise Jesus knew her past sinful life having had 5 husbands and now living with a boyfriend. Still he didn't condemn her. She recognized Jesus as a prophet. She asked about a true place of worship. Jesus kindly opened her eyes that the place is not a big issue but to worship the right object in truth and in spirit. Her problem was that she worshiped her husbands mistakenly. Finally Jesus revealed the true object of worship for all is Jesus himself saying, "I am he!" Immanuel, God incarnated.

2. Leaving her water jar (27-30)

When she tasted Jesus, the living water, her thirst was gone. She found the very object of true worship for which she really was longing. She left her water jar because her thirst was quenched. She ran into the village people whom she hated before to tell how she solved her life long thirst problem. She invited them saying, "Could this be the Messiah?" She meant, "This is the very Messiah! Come and see!" Her changed life was so powerful that all the village people came out to see Jesus.


Application: Lord, thank you for quenching one weary and thirsty soul. You are truly the Messiah, the Living Water! Use us to proclaim this good news!
One Word: You are the Messiah!