Thirsty….Go to the Well

Well, it’s good to finally be back at home and to be seated at the keyboard…It’s been quite some time since I have been able to write, but God has kept the ideas coming and today, I would like to pose the question, “Have you ever been really thirsty?”

Now, I’m not talking about a little dry mouth or nervous anxiety that tends to make the moisture in your mouth retreat like General Lee’s army…I’m talking about the kind of thirst that comes from down in your soul…the kind of thirst that makes you think it could never be quenched…an eternal thirst.

Jesus met a woman with that kind of thirst as he was passing through Samaria and the little village of Sychar. He sat down to rest, parched from the noon day sun and the journey that he and his disciples were on as they headed for his home in Galilee. He had nothing with which to draw water from Jacob’s well when he noticed a woman making her way to the well…an odd occurrence for this time of day. He asked her to give him a drink and her reply, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) John 4: 9

Then Jesus did what He did best…..He met her at the point of her need as we read, “Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” John 4: 10-15

This woman knew a good thing when she heard it… No more long, hot trips to the well and NO MORE THIRST….but Jesus wasn’t through with his ministry to this woman….He had piqued her interest but her eternal soul still hung in the balance.

Let’s read on….He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” John 4: 16-26

This woman had been given all she needed to know regarding the Christ…she had just met the Lamb of God who had come to take away the sin of the world….what should she do if she wanted to have the thirst of her eternal soul quenched by the LIVING WATER….she had confessed, now it was time to profess….so she left her water jugs behind and went into the village and told those that she very seldom ever talked to that she had met a man that had told her everything that she had ever done…and she posed to each of them the eternal question, “CAN THIS BE THE CHRIST?

And the best part of this story….So many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony. (My emphasis) John 4: 39

She came to draw water but left with a heart overflowing with love, forgiveness and the desire to have others met this man named Jesus ….the Spring of Living Water welling up to eternal life.

How thirsty are you today? Have you met this man named Jesus and come to know him as your personal savior….if not, WHY NOT?

He‘s waiting to meet you at the well …but He won’t wait forever!!!!!!

Thirsty No More,
WPQ

Poem for the Day:

COME TO THE WELL

When life seems too much to bear
And its fears you can’t dispel;
You will find the Savior waiting
When you come to the Well.

Though your life is wrought with pain
So intense you want to yell;
You’ll find release in the Savior’s peace;
He’s waiting at the Well.

For all your life though your sin and strife
Has cast on you its spell;
Know you’ll receive when you believe
His mercy at the Well.

In your disgrace accept the Father’s grace
That saves the lost from Hell.
Then you will know, His love overflows
When you meet Him at the Well.

For you long to be, alive and free
In your heavenly home to dwell;
To be forever blest in eternal rest
With Jesus… at the Well.


W. Patrick Queen
November 2011