"There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." - John 4:7

Read also Mark 14:32-52 and Philippians 2:5-8

    In the life of Christ, we see something deeper than a moral pattern—we see the sovereign grace of God at work. Christ didn’t just demonstrate to us how to live; He lived on our behalf, suffered on our behalf, and died for our sake. Each step of His human life was governed by the will of the Father to save His people.

    In John 4, Christ—fully man and fully God—requests a drink from a Samaritan woman. And in Mark 14, He shares the depth of His grief and anguish in Gethsemane with His followers. These were not occasions of divine vulnerability for the sake of modeling authenticity; they were acts of incarnational mercy. Christ entered our frailty, to relate and to redeem.

    This is the Savior we adore: not aloof and distant, but most familiar with sorrow. And since He has drawn us near by His blood, now we are called to live as He lived—not in our self-reliant strength, but in the enablement of the Spirit who binds us to Him.

    We live openly and we love selflessly not to impress and to earn righteousness, but because the Righteous One has made us new. We aren't just being called to to proclaim truth loudly from the security of a platform and step back, but we are being called to open our lives up to the world, step into the messiness of life, and to reflect Christ, who stooped low to save.

    Grace and Peace,
    Brandan