Life-giving Water

Reflections for this date are based on the following scripture passages:
John 4	Numbers 33	Psalms 63

The question, "who is Jesus?" takes on significance only when the question is personal rather than religious. Jesus encountered a Samaritan woman at a well just outside her hometown. She became intrigued when He offered her water which would quench her thirst forever. Her first thought, though, was of the physical benefit. If Jesus gave her water which would keep her from ever getting thirsty again, she wouldn't have to keep returning to the well to haul water home. But Jesus was more concerned with her spiritual thirst. This was the thirst she kept trying to quench in destructive ways.

To press toward her spiritual thirst, Jesus asked the woman to bring her husband back to Him for this was the root of her problems. She had been married 5 times and was currently living with a man to whom she was not married. She had been trying to quench her spiritual thirst in non-spiritual and destructive ways. But when Jesus revealed her past to her, she knew He was not speaking of physical water and that He could do what He claimed He could, give her water that "will become a well of water springing up within (her) for eternal life."