I Just wanted to share this reflection/revelation that I had:

John 3:29 and 4:7-18: "The bride belongs to the bridegroom. ..."     "He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true""

I have been reading John recently. Actually I just started today.  And I came across these two passages, John 3:29 and 4:16-18.  If you read the inbetween parts you may know what's going on, but haha, it's a bit too long to write. 

Reflection (If I misinterpreted this... well I'm sorry) :

  You may think that the Bride has like nothing to do with this passage, but it has everything to do with it. not everything, but like there's this central idea in it.  Previously, in Genesis, Abraham sends out a servant to find a wife for Issac.  The servant goes to a well, very much like the one we see here when Jesus talks to the samaritan woman.  The Rebekah of the story is actually very nice and very pleasant, while the Samaritan woman is not that great.  She questions Jesus, and is suprised to hear Him speak to her.  But that's something else.  Anyway Jesus tells her to call her husband, where she says she currently has none, and Jesus replies that she has had 5.  The Husbands, are things of worship.  Women tend to "worship" or abundantly love their husbands.  In a way, these husbands are like our idols, or whatever we worship.  The Samaritan woman can be seen as us people.  I am that Samaritan woman.  I had been married and chained to other things other than God but God says, "the bride belongs to the bridegroom".  Jesus! Jesus is that bridegroom!  We are personified through the Samaritan woman.  He was the one came to us because he was to marry/save us!  It's like Hosea!  God tells Hosea to take for himself a prostitute and marry her!  In a way, we are as dirty, and as permiscuous as that prostitute.  But God tells us we belong to Him.  Isn't that amazing????  I have NEVER EVER thought of this verse in this way, and it's amazing how He would reveal this to me.

Also, this is from the Exodus Series from Pastor Matt I'm not sure where exactly it's found, but if you heard the sermon then.. you should know haha:

Umm.. Well.. anyway, I got this from Pastor Matt's sermon, and once again, if I misinterpreted this.. then I'm sorry:

  Ok, this is the story where God has delivered the Jews from the Egyptians and they are crossing the Red Sea.  The Egyptians are on a warpath trying to go and kill the Jews, they have chariots and according to pastor Matt, Chariots = GG.  Anyway, that land, that the Jews were on, that Egyptian land, it's like the land of sin.  You know, it's the land that we were slaved to the world, slave to death.  And Jesus dies and made a path, which would be like the parting of the Red Sea, and as we cross it, we are in the process of being saved.  The Egyptians, to me, are like Satan or Sin.  They are trying to hold us back, and kill us and try to enslave us again, but we are set, we are ready (somewhat), and we are determined to go across and to the promised land.  And the Jews crossed and the waves crashed and crushed the egyptians, hence, Jesus' blood (waves) would wash away sin (egyptians).  Umm.  The Land of wilderness is our current life right now,  God leads us, but we still have hardships and trouble.  and as Pastor Matt told us something like this last week, "When you're in wilderness you proclaim the realism of God's salvation, and God becomes real as we are in troubled times." (not word for word).  And the Promised land is basically Heaven.  But anyway, God doesn't lead us to the wilderness just to make us hate Him, He has never forsaken us.  He may allow for things to happen, or allow us to do things that may make us worse and worse, but the recovery, the repentance and the effort we choose to put in allows us to feel that realism of His presence.  Like psalms 23, "The Lord is my shepard..." He is always with us, and in times of trouble, he is even closer.  We are saved therefore we obey, it isn't we obey and therefore we are saved.  If you switch that two around, then well you aren't living that christian life.  We obey God because we love Him, not be be saved, because we're already saved (If you're born again) and to obey, shows that we love Him.  We become the things we Love/worship.

The bible has a lot of parallelisms and words of encouragements.  Anyway this is all my opinion and what I've gotten out of it, if I misinterpretted then I'm sorry God.