People have grown weary of where our nation is heading under leadership that has opened the door for a flood of absurd and ungodly change – a change that is being forced upon its citizens. They are also weary of silent leaders within the Church who have been groomed to believe compliance and a non-confrontive faith are somehow more spiritual. That delusion is taking place while people are suffering and being led astray. It is like we have taken a detour into a foreign land arriving in an unrecognizable place that has created a deepening weariness of the soul. 

One day, Jesus and His disciples had to pass through Samaria on their way to Galilee. On the journey, the disciples brought with them their dislike and prejudice of the Samaritans. Jesus brought with Him the love of the Father. 

John chapter 4 reveals that after the long journey, “Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime” (vs. 6). While His disciples went into town to buy some food, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well. A conversation took place between Jesus and the woman that radically changed her life. After that conversation, she went back to town to tell people what happened. The people begged Jesus to stay. He remained with them for two days and many believed. 

Jesus modeled for us how to live in a weary place. This is not limited to physical weariness. It includes a deeper form of weariness created by things that appear beyond our ability to control that are obviously heading in the wrong direction with no end in sight. 

Every dark and weary place has the potential to become like the conversation at the well between Jesus and the Samaritan woman and the response of the townspeople. These interactions are hidden treasures embedded in weary places. They carry the potential for great change and the discovery of newfound freedom if we do not allow our weariness to get in the way of the wonderful things God plans to do, even in wearying moments of history like the one in which we currently live. 

^“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4: 13).