“Yeshua answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and Who is the One Who says to you, ‘You must give me something to drink,’ if you asked Him then He would give you living water” (John 4:10 One New Man)
We have to drink water in order to survive. I mentioned in last week topic Daily Bread that we probably could only survive without water about two or three days. I’ve had opportunities to see footage of different countries where their water supply was really bad and dangerously contaminated. Some ministries have actually gone to these different countries and set up different types of systems to purify the water which enables them to drink clean pure water. We are totally blessed here in the United States, whereas we do have clean water to drink. We also have an advantage of determining what type of water we would like to drink; for instance , purified, distilled, and I personally like to drink alkaline water. Unless there is some type of disaster like flooding or toxic chemical spills that could contaminate the water, we pretty much have safe water to drink.
Jesus and His disciples had just left Judea and had to go through Samaria to get to Galilee. The bible said Jesus had gotten weary from the journey and decided to sit down on Jacob’s well while His disciples went to town to get something to eat. The bible said it was around the sixth hour which was noon. So being in a desert place would have been as they use to say in the cowboy days, “high noon”, Jesus probably was thirsty from the journey. When a Samaritan woman showed up to draw water from the well, Jesus asked her to give Him something to drink. She did what a lot of us still do now when the Lord speaks to us and gives us a command. We start questioning and trying to figure out- where is He is going with this. He answered her by saying if she knew that the gift of God was standing in front of her, she would be asking Him to give her living water. The woman began questioning Him again on a natural level and telling Him how deep the well was. She also questioned how was He to give her water without the necessary tool to draw the water out of the well. She didn’t even realize that He was speaking to her on a spiritual level. Are we sometimes like the woman at the well and don’t recognize the gift the Lord is offering because we are trying to receive something spiritual on a natural level? She asked Jesus was He greater than their father Jacob who gave them the well. His response to her is still the same for us. Jesus lets us know that we can drink natural water but will get thirsty again; it can never satisfy our souls. He has living water which is the word and we will never thirst again. When we draw from Him it will be well water springing up into eternal life which never runs dry. The woman thought Jacob’s well was the provision that they needed to survive, but Jacob’s well could never fill her thirst the way Jesus did that day. The well water she received offered her salvation and deliverance from her relationship issues.
This well water allows us to be able to worship our Heavenly Father in spirit and truth. As this Spiritual water flows through us, we too will run and tell our neighborhoods about our meeting at the well with Jesus. We can offer them this same water so that they also will never thirst again.
