An unreached people group

In John 4, Jesus was traveling with his disciples and they had to go through Samaria.  Samaria was the burial place of all the kings of Israel and was full of half-breeds because it was where all the exiles from the other countries came.  They all had different beliefs, religious traditions and was full of sexually immoral.  Jews avoided the Samaritans like the plague.

When Jesus was tired from travel, He stopped at Jacob's well to rest and to get a drink. A Samaritan woman approached and he asked her for a drink.  This Samaritan woman had been married 5 times and was living with a man that was not her husband.  She had been searching for someone to fill her lonely soul and after 5 marriages and 5 divorces, she had given up and didn't even bother with marrying anymore.  I can guarantee she felt alone, despised and rejected.  She was shocked that Jesus even spoke to her being a Jew and she being a Samaritan.  She obviously thought He was talking about liquid water to drink, but He was ultimately referring to living water.

²¹ “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³ Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴ God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” ²⁵ The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”  ²⁶ Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am He.”

Iva writes this and I have never thought of it this way before...

"Jesus, however, saw His Father working among this unreached people group.  He saw a spiritual harvest field where the disciples saw only a place to buy bread.  Jesus knew that the key to reaching the city with the gospel was a woman well known by the men of the city and avoided by the women.  The news of this woman's encounter with Jesus Christ turned the town upside-down.  You too may be sitting in the middle of a harvest field and not realize it.  A rich harvest awaits those with eyes to see.  The woman or man most overlooked may be the key to reaching an entire community."

Isaiah 61:1-2 has in the last few months been one that God has used in my life and today it has a whole new meaning.

 ¹ The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
   because the LORD has anointed me
   to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
   to proclaim freedom for the captives
   and release from darkness for the prisoners,^[a]
2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor.

 Oh I pray that the Lord would open our eyes to see a spiritual harvest and wisdom to be bold telling others about Him!