John 4
Every day our lives are walking billboards to the world. Every day we are carrying a message to the world. This message is proclaimed by our body language, our words, our attitudes, how we spend our time and resources, how we treat people, and by what makes us smile or cry; on purpose or by accident, for better or for worse, everyone is carrying a message.
The sobering reality is that many times the message we think we are proclaiming is not the actual message people are hearing.
Designer Cliff Dickens has created unique ads for companies. He says that his ads carry their actual message.
Trader Joe: a poor man's Whole Foods. (Kathie and I love shopping there!!)
Starbucks: we serve you decafe if you are rude.
Hallmark: when you care enough to give a card mass-produced by a corporation.
Old Spice: smell like grandpa. (nailed this one)
WebMD: convince yourself you have a terminal illness.
Harley Davidson: here for you during your mid-life crisis.
Victoria Secret: lowering a woman's self-esteem since 1977.
The point is, everyone is carrying a message and it may not be the one you want to project.
In John 4 we have a woman whose message impacted a whole town. Believing the message that Jesus could quench the thirst of her eternal soul, between verses 26 and 27, she became a Christ follower. Her first response was to drop her water jar and go back into town and share the "message" that had changed her. When we make Jesus our Lord, Savior and Thirst Quencher, it changes everything in our lives. It is never business as usual after Jesus comes in.
Since we have such a wonderful message to proclaim, that Jesus is still the thirst quencher, the challenge for us is to make sure that gospel message is being lived out in every aspect of our lives.
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