“Where

Do You Get

That Living Water?”

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.”

John 4:7-14

Jesus offered something far greater to the woman at the well than she could ever have imagined. The woman at the well was ready to listen. None of her personal relationships had ever filled up her emptiness. Then Jesus offered her “water” that would soothe her parched life and give her something more – the promise of eternal life.

That same promise is ours as well. God’s grace and love come from a bottomless reservoir. Drink from the water He offers, and you will never thirst again.

Only Jesus, the Living Water,

can satisfy the thirsty soul.

Our Daily Bread – October 15, 2006