Living Water

John 4:7-15, “A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”

This experience at the well has long been a touchstone of faith for me. It is a reminder of how Jesus sees each of us; not stained, nor damaged or beyond hope. Jesus takes this woman’s heart into His loving hands and tenderly offers her eternal waters, living waters, in the Kingdom of Heaven. There is no issue of nationality or race it is about God’s love through Him to her. It is the same for each one of us. Jesus speaks to us individually through this encounter. It is our choice to live into Jesus Christ’s offering of living water.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You for this day and for Your Son Jesus Christ whose offering of living water is made to us as well. We will drink from that eternal promise. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.