Comments on: March 25: Water for your pain http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/ Advent and Lenten devotions by Goshen College students, faculty and staff Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Donna Bohlcke http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1395 Donna Bohlcke Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:05:56 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1395 This has long been one of the Bible verses I use over and over with myself and with others. There is a healer and a savior in all of us but too often we forget this. Today has been difficult for me and reading this was such a good reminder. Christ makes room for each of us if we will only hear. I pray that the Lord will lead me to be a light to others and in that I will be healed. Thanks be to God. Donna This has long been one of the Bible verses I use over and over with myself and with others. There is a healer and a savior in all of us but too often we forget this. Today has been difficult for me and reading this was such a good reminder. Christ makes room for each of us if we will only hear. I pray that the Lord will lead me to be a light to others and in that I will be healed.
Thanks be to God.

Donna

]]> By: Ruth http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1394 Ruth Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:24:47 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1394 Very insightful! This is the second time this week I've been inspired by thoughts on this story. It is interesting to consider why Jesus brought up this woman's past and current sin. How encouraging that he did it not to condemn her, but to make a way for her to be exposed and then embrace the Healer and Savior. We have so much to learn from Jesus' example. Very insightful! This is the second time this week I’ve been inspired by thoughts on this story. It is interesting to consider why Jesus brought up this woman’s past and current sin. How encouraging that he did it not to condemn her, but to make a way for her to be exposed and then embrace the Healer and Savior. We have so much to learn from Jesus’ example.

]]> By: Mervyn Carapiet http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1393 Mervyn Carapiet Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:52:07 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1393 Thank you, Reuben, for reminding me that God uses people to identify my pain/s. And they help me, too. May the dear Lord make use of me, too. Blessed are they, and blessed are you, dear Reuben Thank you, Reuben, for reminding me that God uses people to identify my pain/s. And they help me, too. May the dear Lord make use of me, too. Blessed are they, and blessed are you, dear Reuben

]]> By: Betty http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1392 Betty Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:26:40 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1392 Thank you for your insight of the first step in any healing we experience. "Name the pain". " Name the sin" may also be an apt word for some of my pain. If I don't admit that I have the pain or sin I will be stuck forever in the mire. Thanks be to God for the living water. Thank you for your insight of the first step in any healing we experience. “Name the pain”. ” Name the sin” may also be an apt word for some of my pain. If I don’t admit that I have the pain or sin I will be stuck forever in the mire. Thanks be to God for the living water.

]]> By: Barbara A. Clark http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1391 Barbara A. Clark Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:12:30 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1391 Thanks, Reuben, for validating the waiting room of pain and the hope that we have of being able to be released from that place! Thanks, Reuben, for validating the waiting room of pain and the hope that we have of being able to be released from that place!

]]> By: John Hackman http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1390 John Hackman Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:21:04 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1390 This is a wonderful story and best told in it's entirety as you told it. Jesus not only met the one person but her whole community welcomed him there where he stayed for 2 days with them, teaching them who he was and why he had come into the world. It is so curious that she left her water jug by the well and returned to the city to tell her neighbors about this man whom she had met. Does this mean that she truly accepted the "Living water" and forgot all about the physical H20? Were these Samaritans the first converts to his teachings? Was he the prophet not without honor save in his own country that we have heard of to some, and The Messiah to others? This is a wonderful story and best told in it’s entirety as you told it. Jesus not only met the one person but her whole community welcomed him there where he stayed for 2 days with them, teaching them who he was and why he had come into the world. It is so curious that she left her water jug by the well and returned to the city to tell her neighbors about this man whom she had met. Does this mean that she truly accepted the “Living water” and forgot all about the physical H20? Were these Samaritans the first converts to his teachings? Was he the prophet not without honor save in his own country that we have heard of to some, and The Messiah to others?

]]> By: Mary K.Mishler http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1389 Mary K.Mishler Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:06:22 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1389 Thank you for the challenge of sowing and reaping. We need to be reminded of our responsibility where ever we find ourselves. Thank you for the challenge of sowing and reaping. We need to be reminded of our responsibility where ever we find ourselves.

]]> By: Joy http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1388 Joy Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:45:15 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1388 Thank you for this thoughtul meditation. I will re-read this several times today. I need this Word from Jesus just as the Samaritan woman did so many years ago. Thank you for this thoughtul meditation. I will re-read this several times today. I need this Word from Jesus just as the Samaritan woman did so many years ago.

]]> By: Jim Miller (James N. '53) http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1387 Jim Miller (James N. '53) Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:31:12 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1387 Profound thoughts about pain and messages and messengers! These thoughts invite further discussion and exploration! Thank You! Profound thoughts about pain and messages and messengers! These thoughts invite further discussion and exploration! Thank You!

]]> By: Patricia http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/march-25-water-for-your-pain/#comment-1386 Patricia Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:50:19 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1033#comment-1386 Reuben, I particularly liked the application you made regarding healing in the life of the Samaritan woman: that God uses people in our community of faith to help us name the hurt...as a necessary step to healing. Thanks for your insight. Reuben, I particularly liked the application you made regarding healing in the life of the Samaritan woman: that God uses people in our community of faith to help us name the hurt…as a necessary step to healing. Thanks for your insight.

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