Monday, April 4, 2011

Here She Is Again!

John 4:10-11 - Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says 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 with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?" 

Oh, this Samaritan woman. What a bevy of stories can be gleaned from her one encounter with Jesus.

We are all like her you know, whether man or woman. She is the represents sin, something to which we all can hold claim...even if it isn't the same as hers.

As my friend Carol and I drove to my "little Baptist church," Superstition Foothills, in Gold Canyon, Arizona, I knew we would be fed a good meal from Pastor Joe Knowles as he related the account of this woman and how her life shared a moment in time with Jesus and how Jesus even needed a drink.

And you know, it only takes a moment with Jesus, to meet Him where you are, in your sinful state, to taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 34:8).

As Jesus hung on the cross moments before His death at Calgary, He spoke the two words: I thirst. Pastor Joe pointed out that Jesus' whole life was centered around winning lost souls. Even at the cross after He had undergone mocking, spitting, the crown of thorns, the agony of the whipping, the long walk with the cross on His back, then the nails piercing His hands and feet, He never spoke against the people. No, He did as He had done at the well with the Samaritan woman, He saved a soul, the one thief who acknowledged his sins before Jesus.

At the well Jesus met the Samaritan woman and told her she might be dipping the bucket for water to quench her thirst but only He could provide the water that would allow her to never thirst again. And she was curious about such water. She received Christ within minutes.

Pastor Joe said the Greek word for water in the account of this woman was word. I find that incredibly interesting and certainly not a coincidence! If we are curious about the water that will never cause us to thirst again, we need only go to the Word. Jesus is the Word. Jesus is the Living Water. The Bible is the Word. Ephesians 5:26 tells us that He might sanctify and cleanse...with the washing of water by the word.

The quenching of the water of the word. If we take the time to quench our thirst each day by opening up the Word, we meet the Living Word page by page. It quenches. He quenches.

What more can I add to this? If we have received Christ we have been washed. We have thirsted once in our lives but now our thirst has been quenched. There is a satisfaction we hold on to that we did not have before. We have received the Living Water. We can, like the Samaritan woman, share that thirst quenching water by sharing Christ with others. We cannot live without water. I love how God the Father has created the words. Isn't it ironic...Jesus is that Water? It's fact.

Matthew 5:6 - Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

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