God whispers perception is from me, so trust me.
I sometimes struggle to trust what I am feeling. Do you? The writer of considerable perception remembers how it feels to be confused and insecure. Have you ever felt confused and insecure?
Perception deals with the human senses that generate signals from the environment through sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Definition of perception is a result of perceiving an observation or a mental image or concept. a writer of considerable perception, she remembers how it feels to be confused and insecure
We perceive what we don’t see, and it is more than intuition. However, intuition is simply the story we create when we recognize patterns. It is similar to perception in that it’s automatic, effortless, and quick. It’s often subconscious. Most of us think that our reasoning mind rules the show.
Today I would like to visit John 4. It talks a lot about perceptions.
Jesus is tired, and he has traveled to Samaria. The Samaritans and Jews were not friends. Who were the Samaritans? A Samaritan, a member of a community of Jews, now nearly extinct, that claims to be related by blood to those Jews of ancient Samaria who was not deported by the Assyrian conquerors of Israel’s kingdom in 722 BC. They wanted to rebuild the temple, but they had mixed theology. They believed in God, but they believed in other gods. Some had intermarried, bringing those beliefs within the marriage. So they were not able to rebuild the temple. We read this in Ezra. So the Jews of Jesus’s time normally avoided Samaria. But on this day, Jesus is in Samaria. He is at Jacob’s well. Remember Jesus is the promise God gave to Abraham. God promised to make Abraham a great nation.
So, Jesus is at the well. It is the sixth hour of the day. A woman comes to the well at a time when most had already successfully obtained water. A chance encounter with a man who asks her for a drink. He promises to give her water that will quench her thirst. Living water that will nourish her for a lifetime.
“The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” John 4: 9-15, NIV.
However, Jesus probes into her life and tells her to go get her husband; she responds, “I have no husband.” Then, he reveals that he knows she has had five husbands and is living with a man who is not her husband.
Beloved, Jesus draws her in, and she asks if he is a prophet. Her perception is that this man cares for her. She asks if he is the Messiah.
She accepts Jesus’s offer for living water. She becomes a witness for Jesus.
“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” John 4:29. NIV.
Beloved, have you met Jesus at the well? Have you accepted the living water he offers? What is in your past that you need to be washed away?
God whispers, my perception is that you are my beloved.
Even though I struggle to trust my perception, I do not have to worry about trusting God.
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