If it wasn’t for this testimony in John 4 about the Woman at the Well, I likely wouldn’t be writing this devotional. I likely wouldn’t consider myself saved at all. 

How could someone like me, who fell for every lie that was told to her, who denied her true self to believe the lies of others, be worthy of saving? Not that I thought I needed anyone to save me — I could save myself! What did I need anyone else for?

That is what I thought until I read this story, where Jesus sat in in the heat of the noon day sun beside a well in Samaria. He was there alone while the disciples went to go find some food. He sat and waited for someone he knew would be there. 

The Woman at the Well.

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