15. He Told A Gal Like Her

John 4:26

I think many of the people who don’t care anything about Jesus are that way because deep down they think He doesn’t care anything about them. 1 John 4:19 says, “We love because He first loved us.” But some folks have a misconception that is a sort of dark, sad inverse of that idea which says, “He wouldn’t want me, so I don’t really care about Him either.” They think that because their lifestyle or past or reputation seems unacceptable to the Christians they’ve always known, that Jesus wouldn’t give them the time of day. I love Jesus because He not only cares about, but pursues the broken, guilty, weary and misspent outsiders. Did you know that the very first person Jesus revealed His true identity to was a woman? This was a big deal because women were totally disenfranchised and undervalued in their society, but Jesus valued her. Not only that, but she was also a foreigner and a five time divorcee who was living with her boyfriend. You probably wouldn’t find her teaching Vacation Bible School, but when this sad, hurting woman said she was waiting on the Messiah, Jesus looked at her and said, “I who speak to you am He.”