Psalm 114; Ezekiel 47:1-12; Acts 1:1-9; John 4:1-30

We have been thinking about the Christian Journey in terms of some biblical images for the past few weeks. The first image was the path. We saw that one of the earliest -- perhaps the earliest -- designation used to describe those who were devoted to Jesus was "followers of the way," in Greek hodos, a path, a road, a highway, but a term that soon enough came to mean a way of life. This image reminds us that commitment to Jesus Christ presupposes that we live in a world where there are a variety of paths we can take, a world where it is not only possible to get lost in a variety of ways, but that it is likely that we will. And it underlines the fact that in Jesus we find a way of life that will enable us to make our way through this world.…