“Many of the Samaritans ... believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”’ (John 4:39)
Jesus broke tradition when He talked to the Samaritan woman at the well. It was the norm that Jews don’t associate with the Samaritans, and men don’t interact so casually with women in societal regulations. Yet He saw her as a person who had a need for living water, which the wells in her life could not satisfy. He led her progressively to the revelation that He was the Living Water. When she bolted back to town and spread His name, she became a witness that paved the way for many Samaritans to believe in Him.
The Samaritan woman came to draw water at noon time. She chose a most uncomfortable hour when the sun was high in the sky. Her status was revealed by Jesus that she had lived with five men before and the current one was not her husband. This no doubt made her drawing water at the cool of the day with the rest of the town a hotbed for gossip. She was truly thirsty. In her reply to Jesus, she showed her thirst when Jesus indicated that there was a source of water that would never leave her thirsty again. She wanted to know where to get it. The cry of her heart was to have this thirst quenched. Do you feel this kind of thirst?
Psalm 42:1-2 expressed it this way, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” It is even more vividly described when David was in a desert in Psalm 63:1, “O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”
When we cry to the Lord with a great thirst for Him, He will quench our need for refreshment. The world can only meet our temporal needs, but only Christ can truly and really satisfy. Have the joy of drawing close to the Lord in having your deepest needs met in Him!
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