Living Water

Thirsty?

 

Bible Verse of the Day

John 4:10-15

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.”

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NOTES FROM TODAY’S SCRIPTURES:

Do you ever wake up in the morning craving something to eat or drink? Maybe you wake up craving that cup of liquefied caffeine known as coffee before you can do anything else. Or, maybe you’ve run a long distance race or worked heavy physical labor on a hot humid day, and if so, you know the meaning of thirst. You know what it feels like to crave cold physical water.

That’s how this Samaritan woman felt. It was the hottest part of the day, the well was deep, and she was thirsty. She did not realize that this conversation with Jesus would become a significant object lesson for her and for us.

Like so many of us, she was asking Jesus to meet her instant physical need while missing the deeper spiritual need inside. She was asking for something immediate and temporary while Jesus desired to give her something much more satisfying and eternal.

The well was deep. Although she was describing Jacob’s well, she was also describing the condition of her own life. Her need was great. It was difficult to get to what she needs most.

Do you recognize the depth of your need for Jesus?

Give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water. She returned every day thirsty, empty, and wanting more. She knew that the well she was drinking from did not eternally satisfy.

Are you finding your satisfaction in Jesus? Why or why not?

End your devotional time by meditating on the following scriptures:

Be appalled, O heavens, at this;

be shocked, be utterly desolate,

declares the LORD,

for my people have committed two evils:

they have forsaken me,

the fountain of living waters,

and hewed out cisterns for themselves,

broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:12-13

As a deer pants for flowing streams,

so pants my soul for you, O God.

My soul thirsts for God,

for the living God.

When shall I come and appear before God?

Psalm 42:1-2

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