How does a request for water turn into a revelation of the Messiah? How does confronting culture become healing rejection? How does disrupting understanding open the door for establishing worship? How does Jesus lead an outcast of her community to become a trusted voice for eternity? Jesus told Zacchaeus that the Son of Man came to seek and save that which is lost. Seeking is all about knowledge and timing, knowledge of that which you seek and the proper timing of when what is being sought after can rightly be found. Jesus didn’t just happen to pass through Sychar when this woman was arriving at the well. He didn’t just happen to be thirsty when a woman with a water jug showed up, Jesus had to go through Samaria because the Father was drawing this woman to Jesus at the same time that He was sending Jesus to this woman. Our lives are often a picture of how God converges our brokenness and His kindness, our rebellion and His mercy, our fear and His love, our confusion and His peace, our hunger and His provision. God is not the cause of our suffering but He knows us, He knows what we go through and what is going on within us. As David wrote in Psalm 139, God has searched us and He knows us, He knows when we sit down and when we rise up, He understands our thoughts, comprehends our paths, knows everything we do, can hear our words before we say them, He stands in front of us and behind us and places His hand upon our heads to bless us. God is not just aware of what we go through, He is acquainted with our grief, He is in the midst of our trials and close at hand in our suffering. He is not watching over us He is walking with us, He is seeking not to find out where we are, but searching for the moments in which He can show us who He is and that He is now and has always been near. Romans 5:6 begins with some of my favorite words in all the Bible, “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.” God’s timing is based upon our character. He is working in our hearts to prepare us for His timing and yet His timing is based upon our hearts being made ready. God does all the work! No one comes to Jesus unless the Father draws them and no one can come to the Father unless Jesus brings them. God doesn’t merely save those who find their way to Him, He seeks out the right time in which He can converge upon each of our hearts in a way that would lead us to salvation. Today we get to see all the rejection of this woman’s life converge upon all the acceptance of God the Father. In a matter of minutes, she went from the object of her towns gossip to the first person entrusted with heaven’s greatest news. She went to the well a misfit and left a missionary, she came broken and left bold. This morning I pray that we will learn with the woman at the well that each of us has been created for worship and that we will discover that true worship begins with the revelation that we have always been wanted and then, it culminates when we become witnesses to the others that our Father wants.