Good Wednesday morning! With a collective sigh of relief, we all applaud the ending of the political foofarah in Colorado. Unfortunately, the race itself is apparently too close to call and a recount will have to be done. So while the political ads are finished, we will have to see the news reports for a while yet. There is nothing quite like a good election season to make you glad to get back to the normal commercial ads on television. Did your candidates win their respective elections? The fellow I voted for in one race finished dead last. I guess the people spoke and I was on the wrong side of that one! Did you know that Nevada has a "none of the above" option on their ballots? That is actually a pretty cool thing to have. Except for the candidate who had one percent of the vote... trailing the none of the above option which had 2%. Ow, finishing second to "none of the above" would seem to be a pretty harsh rebuke! I wonder how Colorado would have voted in the Bennet-Buck race if they had the option of voting for neither of the two candidates? From the ads that I saw, both of them deserved to finish behind "none of the above", but that's just my opinion. The problem I see with a "none of the above" line is: what happens when it wins the election?
This morning, Jesus continues to answer the woman at the well.
"You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews." John 4:22
Apparently the Samaritans, probably due to the racism that had divided the peoples, had lost their knowledge of God from the time of the ten tribes in Israel. It is possible that in the Assyrian invasion that scattered Israel all written materials related to God were burned and all the temples were destroyed. The people of the ten tribes, the Jews of the northern kingdom had been scattered and other peoples brought into the land. The reason that Jews hated the Samaritans was due to their mixed blood. The knowledge the Samaritans had of God may have been only what could be passed down from the few Jews who survived the invasion in Israel or had managed to return after being scattered to far nations.
"While we Jews know all about him..." The Jews still have the scriptures and a temple. They also have a legion of scribes, Pharisees, Sadduccees, and other experts in the Law. So here is the Son of God, fresh from leaving Jerusalem where the Jews know all about God, sitting in front of one of those despised Samaritans who know little of God; who do you suppose is going to believe in Jesus? And some say there is no humor in the Bible.
Have a great new day in Jesus!
Bucky
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