The Samaritan Woman Meets Black Lives Matter

Many young vulnerable millennial Christian women are abandoning the priceless excellence of Christ's gifts of mercy and grace for the lies and lure of the Black Lives Matter movement.  Who are these women?  Like the Samaritan woman whom Jesus met as told in John chapter 4, I believe that many of them have experienced some form of abusive relationship that has left them wounded and bitter.  

In this Gospel story the Samaritan woman had suffered through five bad relationships and was on her fifth without the benefit, love, and protection of marriage.  With a simple request for water, Jesus opened a door to spiritual conversation. It threw a bridge across the gulf which lay between her and Him. It led to the conversion of her soul.

Breonna Taylor was in her second  relationship with men who were drug dealers when she was tragically killed in a police raid.  As far as we know she was one of the many "Samaritan women" who went to the well of the world to drink from the water that could never satisfy her heart's desire for love and compassion.  If only she could have heard the words of our Lord who speaks to all who look for love in all the wrong "wells". "She that drinks of this water shall thirst again, but she that drinks of the water that I shall give her shall never thirst."  

The Black Lives Matter social justice movement is a deep sinister well of bitter water  It preys on and exploits the brokenness and sensitivity of many millennial "Samaritan women" who seek justice for Breonna Taylor.  These vulnerable women have blindly exchanged the truth and facts of Breonna's case in exchange for the lies and hate of this vile activist movement.   They have gone to the well of political activism as a means of projecting their own bitterness, brokenness, and wounds into Breonna Taylor's case.  

BLM  provides the perfect venue for broken women to vent their bitterness and anger toward the police who to them represent men who only use their power to abuse women.  BLM and Critical Race Theory deliberately ignore actual facts and truth and play on the anger and disillusionment of these young millennials in order to advance their Marxist agenda.  What is sad and tragic is that in the end, these Samaritan women will be trashed by these street thugs and left even more broken and disillusioned - still thirsting for a relationship of fulfillment and happiness.

Jesus alone can fill up the empty bitter places of our inward selves. Jesus alone can give solid, lasting, enduring happiness. The peace that He imparts is a fountain, which, once set flowing within the soul, flows on to all eternity. Its waters may have their ebbing seasons; but they are living waters, and they shall never be completely dried.

But, conviction of sin is the absolute necessity before a soul can be converted to God. The Samaritan woman in John 4 seems to have been unmoved until our Lord exposed her breach of the seventh commandment. Those heart-searching words, "Go, call your husband," appear to have pierced her conscience like an arrow. From that moment, however misguided, she speaks like an earnest, sincere inquirer after truth. And the reason is evident. She felt that her spiritual disease was discovered. For the first time in her life she saw herself.

Until today's Samaritan women who are caught up in this social justice movement - until they are brought to feel their sinfulness and need, no real good can ever be done to their souls. Until a sinner sees herself as God sees her, she will continue in her unforgiving bitterness and remain unmoved.  To this end we as parents and especially as a church must denounce Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, and the entire false narrative of the social justice movement, however culturally relevant it may be. This is the only way to do good - especially to our vulnerable millennial women who are being further victimized by BLM's vile hate and destruction.  

Never does a soul value the Gospel medicine until it feels its disease. Never does a woman see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until she discovers that she is herself a lost and ruined sinner. Ignorance of sin is invariably attended by neglect of Christ. 

Bruised reeds that He will not break, such as the Samaritan woman, form one of the grand peculiarities of the Gospel. Whatever a woman's broken, wounded past life may have been, there is hope and a remedy for her in Christ. If she is only willing to hear Christ's voice and follow Him, Christ is willing to receive her at once as a friend, and to bestow on her the fullest measure of mercy and grace. 

It is His glory that, like a great physician, He will undertake to bind up the wounds of those who seem to have incurably broken hearts, and that none are too bad for Him to love and heal. Let these things sink down into our hearts. Whatever else we doubt, let us never doubt that Christ's love to sinners passes knowledge, and that Christ is as willing to receive as He is almighty to save.

- Adapted from J.C. Ryle's Gospel of John