We live to be something eternal and we can do that by dwelling on God as He Dwells in us and stop worshiping idols that we give all our excitement to yet forget God
Life Flies and death beckons - we are all subject to death at any moment - so lets face it - finding out about God is more important than any other endeavor
The Samaritan woman met Jesus and Jesus didnt lecture her and make her jump through hoops to get to understand that Faith is all that is necessary to enter into heaven.
We like to think we have a saving grace - but - do we ? Yes and No ! We have it but its not in us ...its Jesus and His Righteousness extended and forwarded to our account.
We need to realize that although we are called crazy to believe in Jesus - there is plenty of objective evidence to prove our faith. But The faith is slandered as a straw man is set up to be knocked down representing the Gospel. That Is Crazy !
We deal with shame in many ways - mostly we forget about it - but it often comes back at us. God uses all things to draw us to Him, including shame - our screwups, our sin, our evil...