“A Spring Of Water Welling Up

To Eternal Life”

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.”

John 4:9-14

Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”

John 4:27-29

Leaving things behind is not always bad. The woman left her water jar behind, and hurried back to tell people what Jesus had told her. Even her physical need for water paled in comparison to telling others about the man she had just met.

Peter and Andrew did something similar, when Jesus called them. They left their fishing nets, which was the way they had earned a living. James and John did the same thing.

Our new life following Jesus Christ may mean that we have to leave things behind, including those that don’t bring everlasting satisfaction. What we once craved cannot compare with the life and “living water” that Jesus offers.

Christ showed His love by dying for us; we show ours by living for Him.

Our Daily Bread – January 17, 2015