Anyone Thirsty?

Setting: Sychar located in Samaria

Plot: Eternal Salvation

Star Players: Jesus, The woman at the well.

A woman from 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.) ⁹The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" ( For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰Jesus 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." ¹¹The woman said to him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do You get that living water? ¹² Are You greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." ¹³Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." ¹⁵The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."¹⁶Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." ¹⁷The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; ¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true." ¹⁹The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." ²¹Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ²² You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. ²⁴God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." ²⁵The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things." ²⁶Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He." John 4:7-26 ESV

There are 3 things that count against the Samaritan woman:

1) She was a woman

2) She was Samaritan and NOT a "pure" Jew (Jews often avoided going throughSamaria)

3) She was immoral

How beautiful is it that our God is so humble! Jesus humbled Himself. Despite Him being a Jew and her a Samaritan, Jesus showed no bias. Instead, He gave this woman life, and truth. In an one on one setting, He related to her, called her out exposing her sin and showed her how important it is to have a personal, intimate, one on one relationship with God [Himself].

We can drink of the living water and never thirst again because the living water never dries up. Because of what Jesus has done, we can always commune with God. We can always sit by His still waters and drink of Him. We should be like trees, planted next to rivers of water [God], that produces [GOOD] fruit in its season Psalm 1:3 

God's love refreshes, restores and fills us up with our cups overflowing IF we let Him pour into us.

True worshipers can commune with God anywhere. True worshipers drink of His living water. We worship God through Jesus! There are no limitations on where we can worship! We can worship God in school, at work, on the sidewalk, wherever! Worship comes from the heart, and the truth is Jesus and His word! We worship in our actions, by our words, and through our lifestyle. The important question is, how and whom do you worship?

Jesus dealt with this woman personally. How is He dealing with you today? What has Jesus spoken into your heart? What has the Holy Spirit convicted you of?

Everyday, our hearts are thirsty for Him. Sit by the rivers of water today, drink of God, allow Him to water the ground of your heart. Let us, let God fill us up.

*Interesting fact: when Jesus said salvation is from the Jews in verse 22, He was hinting that the Messiah would come from the Jewish people, Himself!

♥Mari