Where’s Your Water From? A Word from THE WORD!!! #452

As Jesus walked and ministered with his disciples, he led them through a route that most wouldn’t have taken, the disciples objected, for it was a place most considered unclean.  But Jesus had an appointment there unbeknown to the disciples or the person he would encounter.!

“He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

4 And he must needs go through Samaria.

5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria,

which is called Sychar,

near to the parcel of ground

that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 Now Jacob’s well was there.

Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey,

sat thus on the well:

and it was about the sixth hour.

7 There cometh a woman of Samaria

to draw water:

Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

 8 (For his disciples were gone away

unto the city to buy meat.)

9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him,

How is it that thou, being a Jew,

askest drink of me,

which am a woman of Samaria?

for the Jews have no dealings

with the Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said unto her,

If thou knewest the gift of God,

and who it is that saith to thee,

Give me to drink;

thou wouldest have asked of him,

and he would have given thee living water.

11 The woman saith unto him,

Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with,

and the well is deep:

from whence then

hast thou that living water?

12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob,

which gave us the well,

and drank thereof himself,

and his children, and his cattle?

13 Jesus answered and said unto her,

Whosoever drinketh of this water

shall thirst again:

14 But whosoever drinketh of the water

that I shall give him shall never thirst;

but the water that I shall give him

shall be in him a well of water

springing up into everlasting life.

15 The woman saith unto him,

Sir, give me this water,

that I thirst not,

neither come hither to draw…

…. 22 Ye worship ye know not what:

we know what we worship:

for salvation is of the Jews.

23 But the hour cometh, and now is,

when the true worshippers

shall worship the Father

in spirit and in truth:

for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

24 God is a Spirit:

and they that worship him

must worship him in spirit and in truth.

25 The woman saith unto him,

I know that Messias cometh,

which is called Christ:

when he is come,

he will tell us all things.

26 Jesus saith unto her,

*** I that speak unto thee am he.”  Portions of John 4:4-26

Jesus revealed Himself for the first time here, and to a Samaritan Woman of all things—an amazing thing—as this woman was a woman of ill-repute!  But Jesus talked to her (a thing that wasn’t done in that day either!) and led her right up to the way of salvation; all she had to do was to drink of HIS water—spiritual-life giving water!  Jesus IS the water we need. Are you ready for the living water? Jesus is still the water of life to all who will repent (turn from sin to Jesus!), and believe/trust in His substitutionary, atoning sacrifice that HE made for sin at Calvary!

“He that believeth on me,

as the scripture hath said,

out of his belly

shall flow rivers of living water.”   John 7:38

“And he said unto me,

It is done.

I am Alpha and Omega,

the beginning and the end.

I will give unto him that is athirst

of the fountain

of the water of life freely.”   Revelation 21:6

We can choose Jesus and have that life-giving water of eternal life; or we can choose to go our own way.  Jeremiah gives the most profound picture of this truth.  And I am not going to belabor the principle, but I’ll leave it to you.  It’s your choice, but choose wisely, there is a test.

“Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this,

and be horribly afraid,

be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

13 For my people have committed two evils;

they have forsaken me

 the fountain of living waters,

and hewed them out cisterns,

broken cisterns,

that can hold no water.”  Jeremiah 2:12-13

Living water for eternal life—or broken cisterns that will never suffice!  Choose wisely, remember, there is a test, and the judge is coming soon!

Amen and Amen!!!