Hi, Pastor John.
I thought this was interesting when I was reading about the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4: 1-25. The well was dug by Jacob close to the city of Sychar, which doesn’t mean much, only that it’s by a well dug by Jacob. However, when you look it up geographically, it sits between two famous mountains that Israel had to pass through when God commanded blessings to be declared from Mt Gerizim on the south side of Sychar and curses declared to Israel from Mt. Ebal on the North side.
The disciples went into Sychar to buy some food when Jesus and the Samaritan woman met and had their conversation. Jesus spoke to the woman and said in John 4:22, “Woman, believe me, an hour is coming when you’ll worship the Father neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem.”
Centuries before, God’s laws were read from these two mountains as Israel passed through them, but now, God has written them in our hearts so that we my hear God’s Spirit tell us what is truly good and evil. No wonder Jesus said in John 4:13-14, “Everybody who drinks this water will get thirsty again, but if anyone drinks the water that I will give him, he will never thirst again. No, the water that I will give him will become within him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.”
I think it is really interesting that he replaced that outward well to draw from for thirst with a living “spring” flowing from the inside out. No more worshipping on a mountain or in Jerusalem, but it’s “spiritually and truly” from the heart. I think it’s pretty neat, knowing the geography and then how things connect from the Old Testament to the New Testament. Nothing was by chance.
Billy
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