There are many who regret about their past. But I would like to tell you that your messed up past can be your message in future when you submit it to God.
In John 4, we see a woman who was messed up in life. This woman came to the well to fetch water at 12pm. I was wondering why this woman came at an odd time to fetch water? It is because she had a problem.
What was the problem? She was the talk of the town because she had five husbands and one more man who was more like her boyfriend. Everywhere she went people were talking about her, mocking at her, making fun of her. In other thoughts she was talked about and treated like the worst woman of the town.
When she came to well, she found a Jewish man by the well. She thought that this man wouldn’t know anything about her and so she went to fetch water so. As she went close to it, this Jewish man (Jesus) asked her for a drink. After hearing him she began to speak about rules and regulations, good and bad, high and low caste.
After listening to her Jesus spoke about the living water, Jesus said ‘If you drink this water you will thirst again but if you drink the water I give you, you will never thirst because this water will become a spring in within, but everyone who drinks the water of the well he/she will thirst again. When this woman came to know that there shouldn’t be any reason for her to come to well she asked Jesus “Lord please give me this water”, Jesus said ok I will give you, only if you bring your husband. She said’ Lord I don’t have a husband’. Jesus said you have told the truth on this and told her about her problem, after few minutes of conservation she came to known the person with whom she was talking is a Messiah! After she came to know about the person, she dropped the pot that was in her hand and went to the people and told them about Messiah.
I want you to have a close look at this situation, after she came to know about the Messiah the first thing she did was, she went back to the town. Whole of her life she was running away from the people but when she had an encounter with Jesus the Messiah, she went to people and told them, ‘come and see a man who told me everything I ever did’ Bible says, many people in that village received Jesus because of that one sinful woman.
God used the past life of this woman to be a message for the people of Samaria to receive Jesus. This is the same with you; God will use your past life to save the people who are around you. Your life itself is the great message you will preach to bring people into the kingdom of God, because you know what you have gone through, you know how you came out of the situation you were in. God will use the same experience to save the people you are in the same situation as yours.
Remember your mess will be your message tomorrow.
God bless you,
Jeevan n Leena
