In John Chapter four, Jesus the Wisdom of God and the perfection of love and vision stood by the well of Jacob, at the outskirt of the gentile village of Samaria. He was waiting for one little woman who was the key to an entire city. He stood waiting patiently for her, and the mystery was that when that woman showed up, she wasn’t a “Virgin Mary” but more or less a prostitute living with another woman’s husband after her fifth divorce. She was a temptress! How amazing is the visionary power of Divine Love, how He sees the significant in the insignificant and the potential in the unpromising. He helps them discover who they are by seeing in them what they and others are too blinded by weaknesses, circumstances and controversies to see in themselves.
There are mysteries that only love can see and one of those mysteries is the treasure in the insignificant, impious and the most defiled. Jesus stood there for that woman in a very sunny afternoon, enduring the sun for the love of a woman so unloved by many. Who could have taught that the Savior would endure the scorching sun for the treasure in a temptress?
How strange and wild the tastes and choices of God sometimes appear to mortal humans? How far His ways does surpass all understanding? The perfection of love was waiting to reveal Himself for the healing of a woman so wounded and defiled, a woman so impious and highly despised. She was so insignificant that she had gone through several relationships without being able to keep any; she was just another ordinary woman. But then, Extraordinary Love was deeply interested in her, and this time, the relationship wouldn’t fail because she wouldn’t have to keep Him; He would keep her and He cannot fail. God has hidden His most treasured gifts in the most insignificant vessels, so much that the unqualified will not discover them.
We can’t really discern the truth beyond the extent to which we love.
Every mortal is born spiritually blind since the great fall in Eden, but the supernatural love of God is the light that illuminates our eyes to discern the reality. True vision cut beyond ethnicity, racism, pride and prejudice, it cut beyond the skin and the surface to the internal to see the truth as it is. Only love can rightly judge. The Supreme Love look beyond the surface and the surrounding of that woman and saw a thirsting and dying soul crying for freedom, and He reached out to her healing with His love, and her thirst with His living water. How misjudged, wounded and despised she must have been until she met the healing Love in Christ. Jesus restored her in full, so much that she went back into the same city where she had no voice and testified with so much power that she brought many unto the Savior.
God has always been interested in the weak, the frail and the fitly and when He snatch them, He wash them up in His love and make them new. He’s got a huge track history of going for the unqualified and the most despoiled. He’s a treasure hunter but strangely, He visits the trash bins and the garbage places of this world in His treasure hunt and picks up the rags and rubbish and reshapes them to suit divine purpose. God sees the treasures in the trash and the rare in the rubbish for His vision is untainted by the darkness that beclouds the selfish world. Oh how He must feel, seeing that His treasures are condemned to the trash by this world and that mortal humans lack the potency to see His deposits in the despondent and His treasures in the ordinary.
When He was ready to choose a nation, He snatched a gentile out of the stronghold of idolatry. Abraham of Hur was the son of Terar, a carver and seller of idols. His first experience was never with God. But Jehovah the Love snatched him out of the idolatry and made him a chosen one, Israel came out of Abraham’s seed. A Jew is hidden in a gentile and a saint in a sinner; the treasures are in the temptress so the unqualified will despise them. God is hunting for those which humans despise, for in them are His greatest treasures.
When God looks at you, He does not see your weakness; He sees your realness because it is Perfect Love looking at you.
“According as He (God) hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Eph. 1:4).
