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Jesus
Keeps His Appointments
Jean S.
Wilund
My
heart stopped as I looked at my calendar. I’d missed my appointment with my
child’s school principal. Again.
Shrouded
in shame, I reached for my phone and imagined the principal reaching for his,
except he wasn’t calling me.
“Department of Social Services. May I help you?”
“Yes, this is the principal of Pineview Elementary. I’d
like to report an unfit mom.”
Ages ago, Jesus also had an appointment to keep. We know
because John recorded it.
“And He had to pass through Samaria” (John 4:4).
Jesus
had to pass through Samaria?
Surely,
he didn’t have to. In fact, no good Jew in those days traveled through Samaria.
They despised the Samaritans and wore a well-trodden path around their land to
avoid them.
If
Jesus didn’t have to go through Samaria because of roads, then why did he? I
looked for the answer in what he did when he got there.
Jesus
rested by Jacob’s well and waited. He had an appointment no one else knew about
except his Father.
She
showed up right on time.
Jesus,
a Jew, had an appointment with a woman. An unmarried Samaritan woman who was
shacking up with a man – the sixth man she’d lived with.
She
wouldn’t have expected anyone to be at the well at that time of day, much less
a Jew.
But
Jesus had known it all. In fact, he told her everything she’d done.
He
spared us the details, but no doubt they were of questionable nature. What was
Jesus thinking?
No
proper Jew would’ve kept that appointment. But Jesus did.
He had words of hope and encouragement, but most of all, he had the words of life.
Before
the end of his appointment, he’d changed more than this Samaritan woman of ill
repute.
His
words, seasoned with truth, grace, and mercy, impacted her entire town.
More
than 2,000 years later, in 1982, Jesus had another appointment.
If John had recorded it, he may have written, “And he
had to travel on I-75.”
Jesus
met another woman and told her everything she’d ever done.
Like
the woman at the well, he didn’t drive her away in her shame. Instead, his
words of life drew her to him. Drew me. Back to Jesus.
Somewhere
along the road of life, I’d taken a wrong turn and gotten lost, far from God.
But
Jesus had made an appointment with me, set for that moment in my little Honda
on I-75. And he didn’t miss it.
Perhaps
you have a loved one who doesn’t know Jesus or has gotten lost, far from him.
You
can trust that Jesus knows. Pray and rest.
He’ll
travel the highways and byways for the ones he died to save.
Whether
they’re sitting in a classroom, penthouse office, or prison cell, Jesus sees.
Jesus cares.
And
Jesus keeps his appointments.
“Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take
courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:14 NASB
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Jean S. Wilund is a writer, speaker, and Bible teacher. She’s passionate about coffee and comedy, but mostly about sharing God’s life-changing truths. She and her husband live in Lexington. Their children live scattered around the country. Visit Jean at www.JeanWilund.com.
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