Read John 4:7-15. Circle the words that stand out to you. What is the Lord saying to you?
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
Digging Deeper
Do you know any of your neighbors beside your home, in front of your home or behind your home? You see them, but do you know any of them? Some of us are reluctant to reach out to someone who is not like ourselves. We may even be a little afraid of them. We don’t want others to get the wrong impression of us!
Jesus sat at the well and was thirsty. He saw a woman coming toward the well and she saw a man at the well. It’s unusual for a man to be at the well and the woman coming to the well at that time of day. Their eyes met. Was He going to say anything to her or just ignore her?
Water was the common subject. He was thirsty and she needed water for drinking or cooking. Eight times water is mentioned. How strange it must have been that He was asking for water and then He is offering “living” water to her! She came for physical water and heard about “living” water. Jesus didn’t just offer her a sip of the living water but that water will continually flow from within her! That’s astonishing. She wasn’t shy to ask for that living water that He can give to her.
Can Jesus truly meet the deepest need in your life? What’s your innermost, unmet need? Jesus says that He will not just give you and me a sip, just a taste of the living water but will give us an endless supply of living water! A living, gushing water that quenches our spiritual longing and flows into every aspect of our lives!
Whose well are you going to in meeting your physical and spiritual need? Are you going to the physical wells of this world or will you drink from the spiritual well of Jesus? No physical water of this world can fill the spiritual need of one’s life. One needs spiritual water to fill a spiritual need. Whose well are you and I drink from today?
Kingston