John 4:4-15
4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)10 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.”11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living
water? 12 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?” 13 Jesus
answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 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.” 15 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.”
Reflection
Today we read the first part of Jesus’ interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well. This half of the story reminds us that other pursuits, those things we so often put as more important in our lives than God, are like Jacob’s well. The gratification we receive from them is only temporary, but what we find in the worship of Jesus Christ is Living Water. It supplies what we need so that we will never be thirsty again. When we focus worship on the things we want, we may get a worship buzz but that feeling seldom lasts. But, if our worship is rooted in Jesus and His amazing grace the excitement of worship can carry us through our week and bring us back the next week with excitement for what God will do through our worship. Have you ever had a time when worship seemed to not fill you? Or a time when you loved worship but the feeling faded quickly? Tell God about it.
