Well Come Back

Hello everybody.. I feel like I have been a way for a minute, nevertheless I am here now and let`s get to it.  My heart is full so please bear with me. I will be discussing the concept of  COMING BACK..

As a young child I was a latchkey child and watched  ALOT of television one of my favorite tv shows was  Welcome Back Kotter..  anyone familiar with this program knew it  focused on a teacher  and four students that everyone else had given up on. And how they trekked through life situations. The teacher would coach them in academics but moreso spurred them on to become more than what others expected and greater than what they ever dreamt of for themselves. Their very own principal didn`t have faith in them... and basically anticipated the day that they would all just quit , become statistics, end up in prison or maybe even dead.

Many of us have been told we would never amount to anything, we were just like our father or would never make any contributions to the world. On the other hand many were encouraged, had family support and even believed in themselves..  But such is life...  a situation or series of events causes one to falter, allow the dream to die or just give up  concerning the fulfillment of the task.

Today we will see how Jesus can take everything you go through in your life and use it for your good and His glory...  People say , hey I have a great idea will you BACK me on this ?,  Others say we go BACK like rocking chairs...  But my favorite statement comes from  LL Cool J  who said .. Don`t call it a COME BACK I been here for years!!!!

 Life can cause people to do one or two things lay down and die or fight for the right to prosper.

In John 4:1-30.    Speaks of a women who had an encounter at a well with The Living water. The scripture tells us how Christ deliberatley made his way to Sychar which is in Samaria.  Being fully God and fully man he was thirsty.  He sat down right in time for a divine intervention.. Jesus spoke to the woman and said... "Give Me  a drink". Is it me or don`t you just love it when God says stuff to you that will literally alter your very life ?. Many times we think HE asks us for things as if He had need of anything... But the same thing He is asking for from you...  is the selfsame thing He is wanting to give you.

The lady gets a little huffy with the Lord, basically saying who do you think you are that I would even give you the time of day.. let alone a drink of water.  So He responds if you knew who you were talking to you would be giving me what I asked for, so I can give you what your heart has been asking for. She looks at it as most of us would have and said... You don`t even had anything to draw it with , i. e what do you have that the others  didn`t? and  besides that....this well is  DEEP.  Translation I am so jacked up that  you will need more than a cup to dig up the stuff that plagues me..

  She was crass but she wasn`t crazy! she thought to herself...  you approached me differently than most men .. you did not look at what was on the outside but wanted to tap into was was draining me from on the inside.  So I may just stick around and listen to what you are saying....

 She goes on to ask   Where do I get this water from?   but before He could respond she  started  doing a resume check and  comparing  Him to all that  she knew   and that which was human and common . Most of us know the story how they conversed and then He  SPRINGS the truth on her and tells her to go and call her husband...

He goes on to tell her about herself , but in love and in truth.. He did not bring up the gory details of how unclean she was... because His main concern was her total deliverance from thinking man could quench her thirst for love , life and liberty.  He released her from the false reality  of thinking that using her body as a means to please others would do anything but  suck her dry.

Isn`t it just like us to cry out to God... He sends the answer,  And as humans  we try and change the subject to deflect from the core issues... only to find that even putting the word on it does not negate the fact that we are humans with emotions and are still susceptible to the validation of others which ultimatley leads to violation from others.  

After her encounter.. she left the waterpot ( her tool of familiarity) went on her merry way and said to the  MEN... maybe some in whom she had placed her trust .... Come See a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ ?... They went out of the city and came to Him.... Mission accomplished. Broken woman is made whole, goes back and tells others who did it and how it happened. Do not dismiss the fact that God will use the very people who hurt you to be instrumental in your deliverance.

Being transparent before God is not an easy thing to do.. if it were we would be further along in our lives. Yes  He knows all and sees all.  But sometimes we bury things thinking that He won`t notice that they are there . Most of us want to be healed , but fewer  will even attest to the truth that we are wounded... He cannot heal you without you having to feel  ANY pain... That`s what recovery is the act of  COMING BACK from something that tried to take you out.