Living Water (John 4:10, 28-29)
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Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”
Jesus’ interactions with the least, the last, and the lost bring to mind the Samaritan Woman at the well, as told in John 4:4-26. Let me summarize the story: Jesus was at a point on his journey where he had to pass through Samaria. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus had been traveling all morning and was tired from the journey. So, he sat down beside a well – it was around noon. Soon, a Samaritan woman came to the well to draw water, and Jesus asked her for a drink.
A life-changing conversation ensued.
Instead of her quenching Jesus’ thirst, Jesus offered the woman a life-changing gift: living water.
The woman was a bit confused. “Living water? Where can I get this living water? You don’t even have anything to draw with, and the well is deep.” Jesus told her that people who drink the water he gives will never be thirsty again.
She soon discovered that the water Jesus offered could change her from the inside out. The living water that Jesus provided could quench her thirsty Spirit and gave her the courage to witness to others. It had the power to make her drop her buckets, forget about her burdens, and run and tell somebody about the amazing man she had just met. Eager to share her experience, she witnessed with a newfound boldness.
“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?”
Many believed because of her evangelism.