need, but one which was spiritual. There were people there, the woman at the well, as an example, who needed salvation. I believe one rea son why Christ went through Sa maria was because He wanted to teach His disciples not to prejudge. Here was a mighty object lesson. When the Lord stopped at the well it was because He was weary of His journey. It was around high noon, and He was tired. This showed His humanity, as did the fact that He was thirsty. He had sent His disci ples into the city to buy meat or bread which indicated hunger. Jesus Christ was man but He was also Divine. It is in this respect that Christ is different from all of reli gious leaders of the world who have ever lived. He is both God and man. The first thing the Saviour asks the woman is to call her husband. She has lived a life of deep sin and suggests to the Omniscient One that she doesn’t have a husband. The Lord then gave her a brief outline of her past all in one sentence, tell ing about her five husbands and her present evil occupation. He knew all about her and, at the same time, He knows all about you and me. Noth ing is hidden from Him. Scripture tells us that “all things are naked and open before Him with whom we have to do.” He is our Saviour, per fect in every respect. He needed a human body in which to die for us. Yet, if His death were going to count for the whole world, then He had to be Deity. This is the reason that Christ is the only way, truth and life. For this reason I could go to China and fearlessly proclaim this message to lost men and women. “There is no other name under heav en, given among man, whereby we must be saved.” What a privilege it is to proclaim this wonderful Gospel! Christ asked the woman at the well for a drink. All she could see was His nationality and that as a Jew He should have nothing to do with 6
guilty of the sin of procrastination. So often we plan to do something for God, but keep putting it off, until it is finally too late. We do things for ourselves, but put off that which we should do for the Lord. Procras tination is disobedience and disobe dience is sin. In part, at least, we are actually answers to our own prayers. As the Spirit of God speaks to you, don’t put it off, but do that which you know to be His bidding. HE K N OW S He knows it all— the winding path, The sky o'ercast and grey, The steepness of the mountainside. The roughness of the way. He knows it all— the haunting fear. The doubtings that distress. The wond'rings and perplexities, And all the strain and stress. He knows it all— each troubled thought, Each anxious wave of care, And every burden, every grief, Or cross that thou dost bear. He knows it all— thy weight of woe, Thine often tear-dimmed eye, The stabbing pain, the slow, dull ache, And sorrow's broken cry. He knows it all— but His to choose, And thine to take His choice! He knows it all! He planned it so! Then trust Him, and rejoice! — E. Margaret Clarkson I h T IS MY EARNEST CONVICTION that | the business of every Christian is harvesting. Too often discrimination and procrastination blind us and we fail to help those right around us. Everywhere we go there are men and women who desperately need Christ. Just assure yourself that if you need Jesus Christ, then the world needs Him, too. If you cannot do without Him, neither can they. In John 4:4 we are told of Christ, “And he must needs go through Sa maria.” This was not a geographic
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