Sharpen Your Arrows

Jesus leaves Judea (Nicodemus and John the Baptist) to return to Galilee. He makes His way to Samaria and the well of Jacob. Since Jesus is truly God and truly man, His journey wearies him and stops to rest in Samaria. It is here he will have an interaction with a Samaritan woman.

Jesus shows us again that the Gospel is good news for the Jews first and then for the Gentiles. We are brought into His kingdom and family through His blood, not by our pedigree and birth.

John 4:1-6
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

What is Sharpen Your Arrows?

Children are arrows to be shot into the world. Do not send out dull and broken arrows. But send out sharp arrows! Train your children to love and serve God. Send them out with the Sword of the Spirit and the full armor of God.

"Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate." - Psalm 127:3-5