They Seem Unrelated But They are Related

John 4:15
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
John 4:16
He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

Jesus had a conversation with a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. The story is in John chapter four. The woman refused to give Jesus drinking water. Jesus told the woman that He had water that was better than what she had. The woman asked Jesus for this water that would end her thirst and can’t run out. Our text today tells us that the woman asked Jesus for this water. Jesus responded by asking for her husband. What is the relationship between drinking water and husband? They seem unrelated but they are related.

The woman says give me the water and Jesus responds by saying go and call your husband. This was not a discussion about marriage or spouses. From the beginning, it was a discussion about drinking water and hostilities between Jews and Samaritans. Why is Jesus asking for a husband suddenly? Are we missing something? Is there a relationship?

The water Jesus referred to was the assurance of eternal life. The husband is her personal life. Your prospects of eternal life cannot be separated from the occurrences in your personal life. If Jesus comes into your life to assure eternal life, it will affect your personal private life. You cannot accept God halfway. If God comes into your life, He will make serious changes in your personal private life. Her private life of sin and immorality was obstructing her spiritual growth. She had to bring that problem of immorality to Jesus so that He can fix it.

Our entire life is interconnected. Our spiritual life affects our academic life. Our academic life affects our physical health. Our physical health affects our social life. Our social life affects our spiritual life. Our financial life is affected by our spiritual life. You can’t address one and ignore the other. That is why when the woman wanted Jesus to address her need for living water, Jesus said we must also fix your husband issues. They seem unrelated but they are related.

If we do not lead a balanced life, we will turn out to be failures. If we put effort and excel in one area and fail in one or others, we will discover too late that we have failed totally. If you work very hard in school and at work, then make enough money, but you ignore your health and your relationship with God, you will not last long. When your health starts failing and you start reflecting on life, a thirst for God will come and it may be too late. Your hardworking efforts may have ruined your health irreparably. On your deathbed, you will discover that you should have been balanced because everything is related. They seem unrelated but they are related.

If you can relate late sleeping and the next day’s fatigue that causes you to achieve nothing, you will know what to rectify. If you can relate poor preparation with anxiety that raises your stress levels, you will know what to do to avoid that anxiety. If you can relate your gullibility to the consistent heartbreaks, you will slow down. If you can relate things that are actually related you have found a solution to the many challenges we face.

Failure to relate things is the reason why the majority of the people will remain stuck in their misfortune. Many are unable to relate their lack of a budget to the fact that money gets finished before essential items are addressed. Most people are unable to see the place of peace of mind found in worship and the management of regular stress in their lives. If you can’t see the relationship, you will remain stranded.

May God grant us the wisdom to see the relationship and consequently live a balanced life full of wise decisions, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

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