Daily Lesson for March 1, 2021

 Today's Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 4 verses 27 through 29:

27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, ‘What do you want?’ or, ‘Why are you speaking with her?’ 28Then the woman left her water-jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29‘Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done!'

Jesus could be trusted to be alone with women.

This is a very important and timely message, and one which should have been taught in churches from day one. Instead, churches too often turned a blind eye to men who could not be trusted with women, and also celebrated men who refused to be alone with women altogether. So the abusers' behavior were covered up and women were blamed!

Jesus was alone with the woman at the well. But he did not abuse her. He did not take advantage of her. He did not have to later apologize for anything he said "which may have been interpreted as inappropriate" -- another way of blaming women for clearly understanding what they actually heard.

This is a timely and important message. If a man can't be trusted to be alone with a woman (or another man for that matter!) then he simply can't be trusted. Again, and let the reader understand, he cannot be trusted.

The woman at the well trusted Jesus. She brought other people to Jesus. She brought other women to Jesus.

In other words, they listened to her . . .

Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.