When God Doesn't Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can't Live Without

by Laura Story

Yes. That’s exactly what Jesus wanted. And that’s why she was the divine appointment at the well, set by the Father, kept by the Son. While we can’t understand why he chose her, we can get an idea from an earlier verse. Since Jesus was a Jewish rabbi and he and his disciples were devout Jews, this eastern route would have been the expected path for them to take on their way to Galilee. Instead, Jesus chose to go directly through Samaria. In fact, John wrote that Jesus and his disciples had to go through Samaria (John 4:4). The Greek word for “had to” suggests a moral obligation or a constraint that arises from a divine appointment. In other words, John was telling us that Jesus was ordained to do this by the Father—it was a divine appointment set up by God.