Everything I Ever Did
If I ride the wings of the morning and dwell by the farthest oceans, even there Your hand will guide me, and Your strength will support me.
The encounter between Jesus and the woman at the well has more to illustrate about worship. This woman was not convinced by a challenge to her doctrine. She was not converted to a superior religion. She was transformed by the spiritual working of God’s Spirit in the depths of her heart!
Just a woman going about her daily chore; retrieving water from a well. It wasn’t the typical time for the task, but she preferred the solitude over the company of women who gathered to draw water, and gossip, in the morning. She never expected to meet a stranger at the well; particularly one so …different. He asked her for a drink, and then he offered her living water. That piqued her curiosity, but it wasn’t what triggered a conversation about worship.
With the assurance that whoever drinks his water will never thirst again because it would become in them a fountain springing up into everlasting life, who wouldn’t want that water? When she asked to receive it, Jesus began a search in the recesses of her soul by telling her to “Go, call your husband, and come here.” Of course, the very reason for her veil of secrecy was because she had no husband; or rather, she formerly had five husbands, and she was not married to the man with whom she lived. He knew it, and now she knew that He knew.
When God searches within, you become exposed and vulnerable. That’s not the time to withdraw or shrink back to avoid the spotlight. Neither your faults nor the darkness of your mind or heart can keep you from the love of God. Before your life was in crisis and long before that woman faced her own stark realities, another outcast began to understand that the Spirit of God only seeks to bring you into truthful worship. Here are the thoughts he recorded. I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to hell, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning and dwell by the farthest oceans, even there Your hand will guide me, and Your strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— but even in darkness, I cannot hide from you. To You, the night shines as bright as day. Psalm 139:7-12
Whatever you’ve ever done, God knows about it! There’s nothing hidden from Him. Give His Spirit room to dwell in your heart by surrendering to the light of His presence.
Read: John 4:10-30, Psalm 139
Listen: If I Take the Wings of Morning