“I Am He.”
When a
Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a
drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
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.)
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 livestock?”
Jesus
answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 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.”
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.”
He told
her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
“I have
no husband,” she replied.
Jesus
said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you
have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you
have just said is quite true.”
“Sir,”
the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on
this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in
“Woman,”
Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father
neither on this mountain nor in
The
woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he
will explain everything to us.”
Then
Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
John 4:7-26
If Jesus
came to you as He did to the Samaritan lady by the well, would you accept Him?
Jesus
came to the level of the woman. He addressed her, based on her needs. He
established common ground with her. He was gracious and sensitive. He piqued
her spiritual interest and curiosity.
Get
involved with the lives of others and tell them about Jesus. Use your own
experiences and tell them the impact He has had in your own life. Jesus is the
only source of spiritual power who can satisfy our
deepest longings.
A faith work having is a faith worth sharing.
Our Daily Bread – January 6, 2011