5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: Do You Feel Overlooked? | 5 Minutes With Jesus | July 13, 2026
- Christ
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- Knows all that's true about our story,
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- The parts we own and the parts we would delete, and invites us
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- To bring them all into the spotlight of his grace.
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- Jesus didn't seek out the most reputable in the village
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- To share himself with.
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- He sought out
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- Not just a woman,
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- But a samaritan woman with a bad reputation,
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- The lowest of the low in that culture.
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- To show that in god's hands, even the things that have broken
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- Us can be used by him to make us whole again.
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- Do you ever feel kind of lost in the crowd?
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- Could be where you work. or even in your own family.
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- Or it just feels as if nobody really sees you.
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- One of the most moving things
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- About christ's life on earth was his attention to the one.
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- Even in a crowd, he heard the one who cried out.
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- Even when someone wasn't looking for him.
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- He went looking for them.
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- I find the story of christ's encounter
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- With the samaritan woman at the well.
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- Revolutionary.
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- You might know from church or sunday school,
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- Or your own studies that jews and samaritans
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- Avoided each other.
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- But have you ever wondered why?
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- Well, to understand the why.
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- Why pure blood jews hated the samaritans.
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- You have to go back to 729 years before the birth of christ,
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- When assyrian settlers
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- Captured the ten tribes of the jewish northern kingdom.
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- The book of ezra, especially chapter
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- Nine, tells how the assyrians and other nations
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- And faiths began infiltrating the once jewish only land.
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- It was one of the strictest commands
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- Throughout the old testament that the jewish nation
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- Should not intermarry with other nations, but ezra
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- Makes it clear that the people had done just that.
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- The offspring were known as the samaritans,
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- And they were viewed by the jews as a kind of mongrel breed.
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- As samaritans began to fill israel's cities.
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- They brought their own religion
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- And customs and mixed ethnicity.
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- A very telling verse helped show the distress that jews felt
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- About this growing race.
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- You find it in second kings.
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- Even while these people were worshiping the lord,
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- They were serving their idols.
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- To this day.
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- Their children
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- And grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
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- It's not
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- That as if the samaritans abandoned
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- The mosaic law entirely, but they kept a kind of watered down
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- Version, adding in other pagan religious rituals.
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- When the jews were rebuilding jerusalem
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- After their babylonian captivity,
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- The samaritans offered to help, but that offer was refused.
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- The jews rejected the samaritans because their genealogy
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- Was questionable,
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- So the samaritans,
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- Who were deeply offended, decided to build a temple of
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- Their own
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- Where they could worship god.
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- And this is kind of key to
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- Jesus encounter
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- With the samaritan woman, because when she meets him
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- At the well and psycho, she asks him
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- Where is the proper place to worship?
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- Which of the two temples is the accepted one?
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- We read this in john chapter four.
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- The pharisees heard that jesus was gaining
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- And baptizing more disciples than john, although in fact
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- It was not jesus who baptized but his disciples.
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- When the lord learned of this, he left judea and went back
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- Once more to galilee.
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- Now he had to go through samaria.
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- Well, passing through
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- Samaria was the shortest route to get from judea up to galilee,
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- But it was a road that no jew would take my choice.
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- Instead, most jewish people would go out of their way
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- To avoid it.
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- They would travel to the east and cross the jordan river.
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- And by taking that route, avoid samaria altogether.
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- What we have translated as had to in verse
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- Four is they die in the greek.
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- And whenever it's used in john's gospel,
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- It means divine necessity or command.
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- In other words, it was a divine necessity
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- And command that jesus had to take that road.
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- There was a woman who needed to know her
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- Life mattered, that she was seen.
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- Many jewish men in those days began their day by thanking god.
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- They were not a gentile, a slave, or a woman.
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- A hebrew man would not even talk to a woman on the street,
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- Even it was his own wife or daughter.
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- Women who were simply not valued as contributors to society.
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- So the fact that jesus approached a samaritan
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- And that it was a samaritan woman was shocking.
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- Christ saw beyond the barrier to a broken life.
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- One of the most redeeming graces of christ
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- Is that he tells us
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- The whole truth about ourselves without shaming us.
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- Christ revealed that he knew who she was and who she was worth
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- Now, and how many times she'd been married before.
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- Do you see the compelling confidence this promise offers?
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- Christ knows all that's true about our story,
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- The parts we own and the parts we would delete, and invites us
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- To bring them all into the spotlight of his grace.
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- Jesus didn't seek out the most reputable in the village
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- To share himself with.
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- He sought out
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- Not just a woman,
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- But a samaritan woman with a bad reputation,
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- The lowest of the low in that culture.
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- To show that in god's hands, even the things that have broken
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- Us can be used by him to make us whole again.
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- And greatest of all.
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- He shared with her
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- The life changing truth that he was the messiah.
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- She was no longer lost in the crowd.
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- You know there are no accidents in god's kingdom.
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- You are no accident.
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- You are not lost in the crowd.
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- And god sees you and he loves you.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, sometimes it's easy to feel that way.
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- And this crazy, busy, noisy world
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- That we just kind of somehow get lost in the shuffle.
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- But lord, i ask you in jesus name
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- That you would give us the discipline to separate ourselves
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- From the noise, just even for a few moments
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- Each day, so that we would remember that
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- We are seen and we're known and we're loved by you.
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- Not only that, were invited to bring all that's true
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- About ourselves into your presence and be loved.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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