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Meditation No. 1784
🔆 AATHAVAN –
Friday, 26.12.2025
“They were saying to the woman, ‘It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One truly is the Savior of the world.’” (John 4:42)
Any truth is far more valuable when we personally realize, experience, and understand it, rather than merely believing it because others have said so. No matter how clearly someone explains what they have personally seen and experienced, unless we ourselves perceive and experience it, we will never gain complete clarity.
Let us imagine that someone shows us a new kind of foreign fruit that we have never seen before, and that person alone has tasted it. He may compare its taste with a familiar fruit from our country and say, “Its flavour is different, sweeter, and more delightful than that fruit.” However, we can truly understand its taste only when we ourselves eat and experience it.
The same principle applies to knowing God. Though many of us call ourselves Christians, only a few truly know Him. From childhood, we have believed and worshiped God based on what our parents taught us. Knowing about Christ in this way and knowing Him personally through experience are two entirely different realities.
When Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman, He revealed to her that He Himself was the coming Messiah, saying,
“I who speak to you am He.” (John 4:26)
Then the woman went into the city and said,
“Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?” (John 4:29)
Hearing her testimony, the people of the city came to see Him.
Later, they asked Jesus to stay with them, and He agreed and remained there with them. As He stayed among them, He explained the heavenly and profound truths in a way they could understand. Through this, they came to recognize Christ as the true Messiah.
Yes, beloved, experiencing Christ and knowing Him personally—just as the Samaritans did—is the greater and richer experience. They did not believe merely because others called Him the Savior, nor because they were taught in religious instruction classes. Instead, they personally received salvation and experienced it, and then confessed Him as Savior. This is exactly how the Samaritans came to know Him. Therefore, they declared:
“It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One truly is the Savior of the world.” (John 4:42)
Christianity is indeed a faith-based path, but it is not a blind faith. In one sense, it is a faith that is rational and experiential. In science, there are many theories, each tested and validated through specific conditions and experiments. In the same way, biblical truths are connected to certain conditions. All God’s promises are conditional. When we align ourselves rightly with the conditions stated in Scripture, we can experience the truth of those promises.
When we live in this manner, we too—like the Samaritans—can confidently say:
“Not merely because the Bible speaks about Christ, nor because I was taught so, but because I myself have heard, understood, and experienced these words and promises, I know that everything the Scriptures declare is absolutely true, and I believe that Christ alone is truly the Savior of the world.”
Message by: Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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