Good Morning Friends,
“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.’ ‘Sir,’ the woman said, ‘you have nothing to
draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater
than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did
also his sons and his flocks and herds?’ Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks
this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will
never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water
welling up to eternal life.’” (John 4:10-14)
The Samaritan woman knew she was thirsty for
water. She had come to the well to replenish the supply she kept in her home. She
didn’t even know she was thirsty for the kind of water Jesus offered to give
her: living water. There are many people like her. They are desperately thirsty
and don’t even know what they are thirsty for.
This woman’s thirst for the living water had
caused her to seek to satisfy it from other sources. She married man after man
looking for what would satisfy, but none of them did. People today do the same
thing. They seek to satisfy their thirst in all sorts of ways: drugs, alcohol,
sex, work, fun, etc. None of those satisfy, because it is the living water for
which they are thirsty.
Before Jesus could satisfy the woman He had
to make her aware of her thirst. But once she acknowledged her thirst and saw
in Jesus someone very special, she accepted from Him what only He could give.
The living water satisfied her! It’s living,
so that it continues to renew itself. All of the other things with which people
seek to satisfy their thirst are not living. They leave a person thirsty again
very soon. Not what Jesus offers. It keeps satisfying even through eternity.
Thank God for the living water with which He
has satisfied your thirst!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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