Hey guys, welcome back to the Dad Tired Podcast. If you're brand new here, every Monday we do an interview, kind of a long-form podcast. And on Thursdays, we do a Dad Tired Devotional, shorter, devotional style podcast to get your day started off right. This is part two of a three-part series done by my pastor, Caleb Allen. Before we jump in, I want to remind you that we have our Dad Tired annual retreat coming up in just four months. If you have not signed up for that, spots will be limited. We want to make sure that you can get your spot for that. Go to dadd tired.com, click the annual retreat tab so that you can secure your spot today. We also do dad tired one day conferences all over the country and world. If you want to go to one of those or host one of those at your church, go to dadtire.com and click the one-day conferences to get more information. That being said, let's dive into today's episode. All right, returning to John 4, I'm going to start now in 16 and work us

through. Now, remember Jesus is talking to this woman at the well in Samaria. He's not

supposed to talk to her because she's Samaritan. She is obviously a woman and she's an adulterous woman.

So she's a social outcast. Yet Jesus engages her anyway. Now in verse 16, Jesus says to her,

go call your husband and come here. The woman answers, I have no husband.

Jesus says, you're right and saying you've had no husband. You've had five and the man you live with now is not your husband.

Conceptually, this idea is that she has sought intimacy. She has sought romance. She has sought security.

She has sought life in relationships. And not once, not twice, not three times, but five times, six times. She has tried to find satisfaction in relational communion with the man. And it has left her dry. Jesus is pointing at her and saying prophetically,

I know that you have circled this mountain all your life trying to find a man who would

satisfy your heart and you're still searching, aren't you? And I want to say that to you,

brothers, this morning. Obviously, you have not had five husbands, but you have had five something, like what,

how long do you just keep going back to the drink and hoping that it will some way satisfy

you or some of you guys who are more mature in the faith? How long do you keep living as if money

or things are going to satisfy you like the bigger house the pool

the vacation how many vacations have you been on hoping for rest yet you still have no rest

why are you trying to find rest in things or activities and not in living water what what is your

forgive me for the metaphor what what is your five husbands?

Like, how have you in some way tried to find hope in anything other than genus? Jesus, I want you to

ponder that this morning. The woman says, I perceive that you're a prophet. Our father is worshipped

on this mountain, but you say it's in Jerusalem

that people ought to worship. And this is obviously always funny because when someone starts

to touch the idols of our heart, we immediately want to talk about religion. And we sometimes,

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