“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?” (John 4: 11-12)
This scripture is from the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well. His actions in this story are remarkable in many ways – he, a Jew, spoke to a Samaritan woman, and asked her for a drink of water. The woman, taken aback, looked at the water from Jacob’s well literally as something to quench the thirst of the family and their livestock. Jesus offered her ‘living water’ which implies a spring or active source from which the water flowed.
When Jesus told the woman that he could provide this ‘living water’ that would quench her thirst forever, she asks how he will get it, since he has no bucket to draw from the deep well.
When we are quenched by the ‘living water’ and live into the Spirit that it represents, we will never be thirsty again. This means to me that I must give up my concerns about what others think of me and the material possessions that I hold onto as important in my life. Instead, I must recognize that loving my family and neighbors in the world is the thirst-quencher for true life.
Prayer/Meditation: Creator of life-giving water, sustain us with your love. Help us see that it is the spirit within that sustains us, not the material things
This scripture is from the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well. His actions in this story are remarkable in many ways – he, a Jew, spoke to a Samaritan woman, and asked her for a drink of water. The woman, taken aback, looked at the water from Jacob’s well literally as something to quench the thirst of the family and their livestock. Jesus offered her ‘living water’ which implies a spring or active source from which the water flowed.
When Jesus told the woman that he could provide this ‘living water’ that would quench her thirst forever, she asks how he will get it, since he has no bucket to draw from the deep well.
When we are quenched by the ‘living water’ and live into the Spirit that it represents, we will never be thirsty again. This means to me that I must give up my concerns about what others think of me and the material possessions that I hold onto as important in my life. Instead, I must recognize that loving my family and neighbors in the world is the thirst-quencher for true life.
Prayer/Meditation: Creator of life-giving water, sustain us with your love. Help us see that it is the spirit within that sustains us, not the material things
that we hold onto.
Carole Kimmel
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