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.) The 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.) Jesus 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.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but 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.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But 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. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” (John 4:7-26 ESV)
Who actually asked for the drink here? Isn’t it interesting we spend all of our time talking about John 4 with the Samaritan woman about Jesus giving us living water, yet we forget that the whole conversation started by Jesus asking her for a drink!
Was he thirsty? Maybe, maybe not. Really doesn’t matter. The whole reason he asks for a drink is because he is sitting by a well and she is there. Perfect conversation starter. Doesn’t matter if he is actually thirsty, because the text is not about water any how…
It is not about water, or physical thirst, just like John chapter 6 is not about bread or physical hunger. We all know that no matter what we eat or drink, we will always be hungry or thirsty again. There is no magic water or food that will cause us to never be hungry again. If there was can you imagine the implications! There would never be undernourished people again, or would there (this is the topic for another blog… as it says you will never be thirsty or hungry, not that you won’t need food or water, we assume…) But John 4 and 6 are not about water and food…
They are about the living word, water and bread, that sustenance for our lives, not for physical needs but for all of our needs. Jesus wants us to be living in and with Him, to allow him to be the most important part of our life. And by doing this He will supply our needs, we will still be hungry and thirsty, we will still feel pain, and have troubles, but He will be with us and provide for us.
He will as he did for the woman at the well tell us our live’s story and give us details no one can possibly know, because he loves us that he came here to live among us and show us how to be in relationship with him and the father.
So allow him to give you the living water and live in those open and honest relationships with everyone! Because in doing that you will draw others to Jesus, and allow them to have the relationship that you have and feed them with living bread and water! The relationship of a lifetime!
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