When the woman at the well offered Jesus a drink of water, He replied, \u2018If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, \u201cGive Me a drink,\u201d you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.\u2019<\/i> Jesus routinely showed mercy to the people who least deserved it, and this woman was no exception. How do you measure up when it comes to extending God\u2019s grace to others? Are you generous, or do you take it upon yourself to dole it out sparingly? <\/p>\n
Jon Walker says: \u2018Grace allows people to make choices\u2026 it\u2019s free\u2026 flowing\u2026 unencumbered by guilt or shame. It says, \u201cI know all about you, and I still love you\u201d\u2026 Most of us, if we\u2019re honest, function as if God were stingy with His grace. We fear His punishment\u2026 we think He is like the school head teacher walking the corridors, taking down names\u2026 but God already knows who did what and who\u2019s to blame, and He loves us anyway. His interest is in redeeming us, not in keeping us on the hook for our sins. Unfortunately, many of us Christians live our lives as if we\u2019re still on the hook\u2026 therefore we have to keep everyone else on the hook. We use weapons of the flesh\u2014the sarcastic comment, the angry stare\u2014to get people to straighten up and live right. By contrast, when the woman at the well went back to her village, she said, \u201cCome see a man who [told me everything I\u2019ve ever done!]\u201d<\/i> \u2026Nothing was hidden from Jesus, yet He communicated in such a fashion that she left feeling loved and accepted. That\u2019s<\/i> God\u2019s grace!\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When the woman at the well offered Jesus a drink of water, He replied, \u2018If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, \u201cGive Me a drink,\u201d you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.\u2019 Jesus routinely showed mercy to the people who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}