Day 9: The Samaritan Woman and Mothra
“With all prayer and petition pray [with specific requests] at all times [on every occasion and in every season] in the Spirit, and with this in view, stay alert with all perseverance and petition [interceding in prayer] for all God’s people.”
Ephesians 6:18 AMP
Scriptures: Ephesians 6:18; John 4:7-11, 15-21, 28-30, 39-42, Zephaniah 3:17
It is the last day of the Warri-her series and the last verse being dived into in Ephesians chapter 6 talks about prayer. With warriors, most people tend to think and picture someone who wields a weapon. A person who is ready to fight. Yet Paul ends his armor analogy with a reminder to pray: to communicate with God, in God, for all of God’s people.
Communication with the Commander, is crucial to a warrior’s survival. When the humble warrior woman, the Samaritan woman (who did not even know that was what she was) came and talked with Jesus, He said He gives Living Water. A source of water that not only quenches one person’s thrist, but it also builds up a spring to produce more Living Water. That is what it does for the Samaritan Woman.
She comes to the well, intending to get water for herself. Then, talks with Jesus, blinded a bit by the fact that he is a Jewish man talking to her (for that just was not done). It takes a while for her to get past not only what she sees at face value but also what she hears. It is not until Jesus reveals something intimate about her that she begins to connect everything. Still, Jesus reveals who He is to her, for her.
Immediately leaving her water jug and everything, she goes to tell others about Jesus. Not the Jewish man by the well as she focused on before, but Jesus. The Divine Savior who knows her intimately. Then others, all Samaritans who did not really interact with Jews, came to Jesus and realized for themselves that Jesus was the Savior of the World. All because the Samaritan Woman went out and spoke. First to Jesus and then to others. The Water of hope, the flow of connection, Jesus made with her continued onward through her.
The product of communication, especially communication in God, is connection (to God first). To look at this product, we must see its power. The warrior, the Queen of monsters herself, Mothra has such communicative powers. Not only does she speak telepathically to her chosen people, she also maintains a symbiotic relationship with the King of Monsters himself, Godzilla.
Symbiotic means, living in a mutually beneficial relationship. How was the relationship between Mothra and Godzilla mutually beneficial? On Godixilla’s side, he is providing safety, protection, power, and possibly the warmest generator ever. She is just a big pretty moth, right? What can she provide?
Well, the willingness and openness to communicate is a powerful thing. It gave her the ability to connect with him, talk with him, share with him what he had to fight to get from others. Through their relationship a connection is built, thanks to Mothra’s willingness to communicate. She has a stinger and strong silky shields, yet the thing she chooses to use with such a powerful being is communication. For she was not trying to destroy but build. Build a lasting relationship. For that to happen, she knew some things would last longer in something rather than on it.
She could not be beneficial for Godzilla just by being on him (that is a leech). She wanted to be a part of him, be symbiotic. To be able to give him what was in her, she had to communicate and share what was inside of her. More than any other creature she could and was willing to do that for, with, and in him. The power of communicating is not a weapon to wield, but a tool to build.
The Samaritan Woman’s story is a reminder and example that God wants us as warriors to build not destroy. To take the time and be courageous enough to extend our hand out even when it would not be the norm. To be flowing springs of living water. Though we cannot be a water fountain without being in the source of water. So like Mothra, God gave us the beautiful opportunity to become symbiotic with Him so that we can be on Him. We can build and spread His grace, His love here on earth with Him and in Hjm. All through the beauty of prayer, of communicating with God, in God for ALL of God’s people.
In part of that communication, I want to thank all of you warriors for joining me in learning and gearing up as God’s warriors. Not so we can fight for God. The fight is already won and God is more than victorious. All God calls us to do is stand, hold our place, and build with Him, build in Him. So dear warrior, do not keep fighting on. Keep standing strong, keep wearing your armor, keep being present in the battlefield with your Commander and commarades, keep communicating with and in your Commander. Warrior, keep living in God. For He wants to live in and with you too. If you will let Him.
Something Good 