Ok, I will probably look and find it tonight.
Thought I had this place marked in the bible but evidently not.
Where do I find the account of when Jesus went and talked to the woman at
the well.
Jimmy Evans says that Jesus was actually doing marital counseling here.
Saying, if you trusted the one true god, you could stop sucking the life out
of all of these men looking for something to fill you up.
She had been married 5 times and had given up on marriage and was living
with a man by then from what I hear.
Evans says that jesus was really just messing with this woman by using the
drawing of the water at the well as a way to illustrate his point.
Oh, I was going to throw in a joke I heard because I thought this a short
message before I wrote it.
Stump and Martha were a sweet little country couple.
Martha was a bit controlling and stump was a bit too much of a yes dear
type.
When they were young and newly married they paid a visit to the state fare
where they would enjoy a day of seeing the sights and watching the people.
Every year they would return to the fare, and they would see the airplane
ride and
this always fasenated Stump.
He'd always turn to Martha and say, Martha, you see that thar airplane ride?
Well, I'd sure like to ride on that airplane.
Martha's response every year was always the same.
Now Stump, that thar airplane ride costs 10 dollars and 10 dollars is 10
dollars.
Stump would always just nod his head and shrug his shoulders and each year
they left the fare without ever
riding on the airplane.
When Stump was 71 years old, he once again visited the state fare with his
wife Martha same as always and as they passed the airplane ride, he made his
same old speech about how he'd sure like to ride on that thar airplane.
Well, it just so happened that the man who had been running the airplane
ride all those years was standing out by the airplane and he remembered
Martha and stump
because he would see them pass by every year and he had over heard there
conversation.
This time when he heard Martha respond in her same old way, now stump, that
thar airplane ride costs 10 dollars and 10 dollars is 10 dollars, he
motioned to the couple to come over to him.
They walked over and he said, folks, I'll make you a deal.
If you will go up with me in my airplane, and not say a single word all the
time that we are in the air, I'll not charge you a thing.
However, if you open your mouths and say even one word, it's the usual price
of 10 dollars.
Well Stump loved this deal and Martha agreed to it so they went up.
The old pilot did loopty loops, he rolled the airplane, he flew up side down
and anything else he could think of but when they landed on the ground, the
old couple hadn't said a thing.
He turned to stump and said, you know, I've really got to hand it to you.
I did everything I could come up with to try and make you folks yell out and
say something but I didn't hear a single word out of ya.
There will be no charge for the ride.
Stump said, well, I just almost said somethin.
When Martha fell out the window.
But, 10 dollars is 10
dollars!
Matt
We marry according to our emotional health.
Health marries health and unhealthy marries unhealthy.
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