Covenant Reformed News – August 2012 • Volume XIV, Issue 4
This article from Covenant Reformed News expounds on John 4:24 to explain the doctrine of God's spirituality—that God is entirely immaterial and non-physical, transcending human sensory perception. The author uses the account of Jesus with the Samaritan woman to illustrate how proper worship must be directed toward God as Spirit, correcting false and materialistic conceptions of how we approach the divine.
The Spirituality of God (1) The problem with the Samaritan woman, at least in the first half of John 4, is that she has not grasped the spirituality of God. The Lord Jesus speaks to her about “living water” (10), but she thinks He needs a bucket to reach the bottom of the well (11). She misses the point that Christ is the living water! He tells her that this water springs up to “everlasting life” (14), but she reckons that this will stop her from thirsting so that she will no longer have to...