So on my day off, I decided to watch a marathon of Jersey Shore..sure enough the teaser in the beginning promised alot of drama, something this generation thrives on. What they did was find a bunch of guidos and guidettes and put them all in one house in Seaside Jersey. Just to summarize what guidos are, basically they look like Italian oompa loompas (referring to their tan) who somehow found a way to escape willy wonka's factory, found heavy duty hair gel, steroid needles, and jacked up some kid wearing Ed Hardy.
Its a pretty cool show with unique individuals, all equally bringing their own quirks to the table. They have Mike the cook who creeps alot, Pauly a Supersaiyan, Vinny a momma's boy, Jwow chic who could probably manhandle alot of guys, Sam packing a fred-flinstone toe, and so on, and so on.
Out of all these people there is one specific person in the show who caught my attention more than the rest and that's the pickle loving girl: Snookie. She's probably the embodiment of a large percentile of the girls in our generation today, the party-hardy charsimatic girl who is hopelessly looking for the right man for her.
Throughout the show, I couldn't help but notice that though she loved hooking up with guys, there was a longing inside her to find the man that she could settle and grow old with, someone who would treat her right. She is among many who are looking for the "one", and though snookie's efforts were made, she would fail in her quest for love. When I studied snookie more closely, automatically a picture came in mind of the Samaritan woman whom Jesus met.
Jesus, thirsty and worn out by the long trip, sat down at the well in a Samaritan Village. It was noon.
Right around that same time, a Samaritan woman, who was an outcast in her village, came to draw water at noon cause she had a reputation of sleeping around with alot of men, or what the Jersey Shore casts refer to as "sloppy girls". To avoid confrontation and humiliation from the other villagers who came early, she would get her water at the hot smoldering day when no-one was out.
She sees Jesus, Jesus sees her and
their encounter goes somethin somethin like thiiss (and for the sake of relevance I'll refer to the Samaritan woman as Snookie) :
Jesus: Hey could you hook me up with some of the water? (since His crew went to buy food)
Snookie: Hold up!! what's up with you, a Jew, asking me, a samaritan woman, for a drink? (Jews in those times were forbidden to talk with samaritans)
Jesus: If only you knew the gift God gives, and who is asking you for a drink, if you asked me to hook you up, I would give you LIVING WATER.
You see this well? Whoever drinks the water from it will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst again.
Snookie: Hey, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty no more and have to keep coming here to draw water.
Jesus: Aight, but first call your husband
Snookie: I don't have a husband
Jesus: You're right when you're saying you don't have a husband, The fact is, you had five husbands, and the man you're now creepin with is not your husband.
You're probably asking: "how the hell does this relate to snookie?"
The text I just quoted speaks on the issue of fulfillment. This Samaritan woman, like snookie, have been with many men and both are on a search for the right man. But the deeper and real issue that Jesus points out is that there is a gap inside her heart that is longing to be filled, that is why He used the analogy of living water that would fill.
All humans have a gap in their heart that is longing to be filled, and the way we as humans respond to this is grab the nearest thing we see and throw it in the gap of our hearts just so it will be filled. But sort of like what Jesus says about the water in the well, you can keep drinking all you want but its only going to make you thirsty again or in other words you could keep throwing things in the gap of your heart but its never going to fulfill you.
The Samaritan woman and Snookie are very similar in the way that they think that getting more men, or finding that right person for them would keep them fulfilled. But time passes by and the Samaritan woman has had five husbands and Snookie having met many men still feels unfullfilled.
They were both looking for the wrong thing, they had the wrong puzzle piece to the gap of their hearts, they "drank" but later were thirsty again.
So what's THE SITUATION? All of us have that gap in our hearts and we try to fill it with things that give us TEMPORARY contentment such as alcohol, partying, drugs, sex, shopping, videogames, men (for snookie).
To find out what is filling your heart, just ask yourself, when I feel down what do I resort to? when I feel that emptiness gnawing inside what do I do, what do I get, or what do I buy to make me happy? where do I find my comfort?
but the truth is by the end of the day, we come out still deprived and thirsty.
But Jesus is the missing piece to the emptiness of each and every human's heart, He offers water that will forever fulfill you. He is the one Snookie has been looking for deep down inside. Since the beginning of time, mankind has been looking for Him. You and I have been looking for Him.
To those who are thirsty, Jesus is just saying
Come at me bro, Come at me!
