“Living Water”

Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. But He needed to go through Samaria.

So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says 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 nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

John 4:1-15

As people help bring clean and clear water to foreign countries, they have time to also tell them about Jesus Christ.

Two thousand years ago, a man named Jesus stood at a Samaritan well and talked to a woman there to get clean drinking water. But Jesus told her what she needed even more than that was living water for her spiritual health.

Life still filters down to just two truths: Without clean water we will die. More important, without Jesus Christ, the source of living water, we are already dead in our sins.

Water is essential to our existence – both physically, but more importantly the water Jesus gives us is the gift of life. Have you tasted of the water that life with Jesus, our Savior brings to us?

Only Jesus has the living water to quench our spiritual thirst.

Our Daily Bread – November 1, 2015