Hey, if you're brand new to Dad Tired, go to Dadtire.com forward slash new. We have a totally free gift that we would like to give you just as a way of saying thanks for listening to this podcast. If you've been listening for a while, you may have noticed this new pattern that we have. We are trying to do kind of long form interviews on Mondays and then short devotionals on Thursdays. I appreciate your guys as patience as we have just tried to figure out

what rhythms work best and to serve you best without overwhelming us and without overwhelming

you as well. I talk a lot about my pastor Caleb, who is my best friend and one of, if not the

best teacher, I think in America, he loves Jesus and teaches the Bible so, so well. He is going to do a three-part devotional

series over the next few weeks on those Thursday devotional day. So today is part one of that,

and over the next couple Thursdays, you'll hear him continue that thought as he gives you

some encouragement to start your morning. All right, I love you guys. Let's dive in.

All right, I just want to point out a few things from John 4 versus 4 through 15 to kind of get your mind spinning for today on your drive to work as you're sitting this morning having coffee.

This is the instance where Jesus stops at Samaria, an Italian called Sikar. He's sitting at Jacob's Well. It's quite interesting

because he's traveling, but he travels through Samaria, which oftentimes Jews wouldn't do

because the Samaritans were viewed with such hostility. The scripture says, a woman came

to draw water and Jesus says to her, give me a drink.

The disciples had gone into town to buy food.

Samaritan woman said to him,

how is it that you a Jew asked for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?

For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans, John asked parenthetically.

The first thing I want to like just poke at this morning is the idea that Jews have no dealings with Samaritans, yet Jesus is right in the middle of Samaria, sitting, having a conversation with a woman who's clearly an outcast, drawing water in the middle of the day.

She's Samaritan. She's a woman. She's an adulterer. And culturally speaking, Jesus is not supposed to have any kind of interaction with her. Yet Jesus simply just does not abide by the cultural norms or standards that dictate to him who he should and who he shouldn't be reaching out to, who he shouldn't, who he shouldn't have a relationship with.

And I just want to poke at you a little bit, like, are there people in your community who you functionally ignore on the basis of some kind of cultural rules or norms or standards that you're

operating by, like, is there some idolatry in us that has

functionally segregated certain people people groups whether whether it be ethnic or or on the

basis of their socioeconomic status like who are the people in your world who jesus would

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