Well

John 4

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

1  Jesust knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and making more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them—his disciples did). 3 So he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
4 He had to go through Samaria on the way. 5 Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. 7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” 8 He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.
9 The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans.t She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”
10 Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”
11 “But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water? 12 And besides, do you think you’re greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”
13 Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. 14 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”
15 “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.”
16 “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her.
17 “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied.
Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband—18 for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet. 20 So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim,t where our ancestors worshiped?”
21 Jesus replied, “Believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews. 23 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. 24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming—the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus told her, “I AM the Messiah!”t
27 Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked to find him talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask, “What do you want with her?” or “Why are you talking to her?” 28 The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?” 30 So the people came streaming from the village to see him.

"Higher than the mountains that i face
Stronger than the power of the grave
constant in the trial and the change

One thing remains

Your love never fails
It never gives up
It never runs out on me

Because on and on and on and on it goes
It overwhelmes and satisfies my soul
And i'll never, ever, have to be afraid

One thing remains

In death
In life
I'm confident and covered by the Power of Your great love

My dept is paid
Theres nothing that can separate
My heart from Your great love"

One Thing Remains -Jesus Culture
 
I know it is a lot to read but it is an amazing story.  I am imagining myself as the woman at the well. I have been seeking the wrong things to satisfy my thirst and it is pointless. I go to the well alone at the hottest part of the day because I am ashamed of myself. I don't want to feel people's stares or hear their judgmental whispers. Everyone knows what I have done. Yeah I'm the outcast. I do not believe I can be loved because of all that I have done. I have this emptiness and I keep trying to fill myself but the more I try the emptier I'm left. I am about to give up. I don't want to look anymore. So I go to the well alone at the hottest part of the day. It is dangerous but I'll do this anyway. I am thirsty. 

Jesus knows all of this. He sees all that I have done. He knows that I am thirsty for something that will satisfy this overbearing dryness in my life. So he sits at the well and waits for me to come along so that I may be truly satisfied. He sits there and waits because he loves me so much that he wants to offer me the best. He confronts me and lets me know that he knows. He knows it all yet he still wants to offer me this living water. I am uncomfortable because this stranger just revealed something very personal so I try to change the subject with a religious question which he provides an answer to. Then I say well we will all know these things when the Messiah comes. He takes this moment to take my face into his hands look straight into my eyes with a gaze that holds so much grace mercy and love and replies I am He. 

I am so excited that I drop my bucket and run back home to tell everyone what just happens. 


I feel like this Samaritan woman. I am thirsty so thirsty for something that will satisfy. I am as dry as a desert. So I run to many things to fulfill that thirst. The only problem is that I run to wells that are filled with impure water. I place my bucket into the water bring it up but it is empty because there are holes in the bucket. So I am left thirsty. Yet I keep running back to these things to gain satisfaction. 


I go alone because I don't want people to judge me for the things I have done. I go alone and Jesus sits at the well and waits for me. He says Rhia why must you keep coming here? Why don't you go to the source of the living water? I will truly satisfy your thirst. You will never be thirsty again. I see what you have done but I still love you. Here take a sip of this and taste the greatness I have to offer you. You will never want to turn back again. 


My mind is haunted with thoughts. A lot of times I am tempted to do wrong. I know I should be focusing on God but sometimes I just want to talk to that one person. To satisfy my thirst for love. Yet time and time I am left out of whack. I am left sad because I am disappointed. I feel like I am a reef blocking that person from feeling a tsunami of love. I just don't want to be that. God replies you don't need to hide from me just be real. I will help you through this. I love you. Don't settle for this when I offer you way more than the best. Wait on my perfect timing and you will truly be blessed. 


Today I was praying that my life felt like a desert. I asked God to drench me in his holy spirit. He heard my cry and blessed me with a message that really related to everything I have been going through. Tonight I walked to the store and when I was on my way home it started to pour. I felt like God was saying here is the rain. :) I am enough for you. 


"Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time--God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen."
1 Timothy 6:12-16