The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

the more common women at the village-well of an
evening might scarcely be a pleasant place of
resort to one with her history. In any case, we may
here mark those Providential leadings in our
everyday life, to which we are so often almost as
much spiritually indebted, as to grace itself; which,
indeed, form part of the dispensation of grace.
Perhaps we should also note how, all
unconsciously to her (as so often to us), poverty
and sin sometimes bring to the well by which Jesus
sits weary, when on His return from self-righteous
Judeea.
But these are only symbols ; the barest facts of the
narrative are themselves sufficiently full of
spiritual interest. Both to Jesus and to the woman,
the meeting was unsought. Providential in the truest
sense—Gk)d-brought. Reverently, so far as the
Christ is concerned) we add, that both acted truly
—according to what was in them. The request: *
Give Me to drink,' was natural on the part of the
thirsty traveller, when the woman had come to
draw water, and they who usually ministered to