September 23: No more thirst

Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. “Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her, for His disciples had gone into town to buy food. “How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.” “Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’? You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.” Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again — ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”  (John 4:4-14 — Holman Christian Standard Bible)

The Jews of Jesus time hated the Samaritans because they were considered “impure” Jews, intermarriage with people from other lands had “polluted” their faith and ancestry. Most Jews would not travel directly through Samaria, but would make a big detour around it just to avoid going through their land. But Jesus refused to act that way, He walked straight through Samaria and even stopped to speak with this woman, and ask her for a cup of water. He had no bias toward her. Jesus was concerned not with perfect ancestry or behavior, but with saving a lost soul. And just like she had physical water to offer Him, He had a water that would quench her thirst forever, that would become a well of water inside of her. 

Most people's experience of Christianity and faith is far less than it’s supposed to be. They go to church some, pray a little, read the Bible and still they have not experienced what Jesus talks about here. This woman's life was transformed beginning that day, and the same power is available for us close to 2000 years later.

Ask God for this experience in your life. What you need is miraculous and wonderful, not common place and ordinary. Some people know what Jesus is talking about here because they have experienced it in their lives. They have drunk of the living water which has become in them a spring of sweet fresh water welling up to bless them and others. Don't be satisfied with anything less!