Don't Give Up

I was thinking of the Samaritan woman at the well. Here you've got a woman that was an outcast, unwanted, ashamed. She wouldn't even come draw water when the other women were there. I imagine that pretty much everyone had given up on her. She was despised, rejected, mocked. But Jesus knew who she was, knew when she'd be there, and waited for her...because He hadn't given up on her...He did want her...He did love and care about her...He didn't reject her. I wonder how many people I meet who are rejected. How many of them have been totally given up on by everyone in their lives. May I be like Jesus and never, ever give up on a person! May I be there to tell them there's hope and forgiveness and to show them the One Who can make that hope and forgiveness real to them.