One of the most iconic stories of the bible is when Jesus meets the woman at the well. It’s a story of foreginess and redemption. The focus of the story is that Jesus gave her living water; which rises as a spring within her soul. This living water is Jesus. What we don’t think about is the empty bucket, probably dropped on the ground. (I hadn’t thought about it either until I read the book “Depression: The Sun Also Rises” by Margaret Ashmore.) She talked about how the bucket was our sin.
This honestly changed my whole view of this story. For her to get physical water, she had to lower her physical bucket down into the well. Throughout the bible, a common thread is that we have to lay down our burdens, our sins, and follow God. Now, this may sound easy, but it’s not. We are comfortable in our sin, almost to the point where we crave it. We ‘re like a baby with a sticky sucker; we let it lay on the table of our high chair, but when someone tries to take it, we throw a fit for it. . So, what’s in your bucket? We can sort of figure out the woman at the well was a prostitute from what Jesus tells us; HusbandJohn 4:18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you Have just said is quite true.” For me, I’ve always struggled with my emotions, as much as I want to blame it ALL my emotional issues on my Cerebral Palsy; I can’t. (Yes, the CP does, to an extent, affect my emotions.) It’s up to me to decide how to act. God’s will is for me to lay my emotions down in my bucket and follow Him. I want that; sounds easy, right. Well… It’s never easy to change; especially when it takes us out of our comfort zone. We hold to it like Linus holds to his blue security blanket in the Peanuts comics. If it doesn’t give us some type of securtiy, we wouldn’t wallow in it. You don’t see a pig taking a bubble bath. He’s out back making mud pies. We aren’t pigs. God gave us a will and a choice. I can choose to drop my bucket and follow Him. And sometimes it takes losing almost everything to loosen our grip and drop the bucket.
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7/16/2019 04:44:00 am
Love this Heather. That story has always touched me. I will be thinking about whats in my bucket and remember that only Jesus can quench my thirst.
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