LISTEN
TO JESUS
NEVER
THIRST AGAIN
John 4:11-12 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? Art thou greater than our father
Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and
his cattle?
Susie:
Sometimes when I read the Bible, I am tempted to think, “How
dense were these people?!” I forget that since I grew up mostly in church, I
know the rest of the story. This woman was talking to a total stranger who
seems to be talking in code . . .
Susan:
. . . that she is currently unable to crack. She does not yet
have the 6th sense of the Holy Spirit interpreting things for
her.
Susie:
Therefore, she wonders how He can offer her water when He has
no bucket to lower into the well. After all, He originally asked her
to give Him a drink.
Susan:
She wonders if He thinks He is greater than the patriarch
Jacob who established the well in the first place.
Susie:
Both Jews and Samaritans revered Jacob as an important
forefather of their people. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were the pillars of their
culture and their belief system.
John 4:13-14 Jesus answered
and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again: 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.
Susie: Obviously, Jesus
is not talking about actual, liquid water.
Susan: Jesus is using a
spring of water to represent the presence of the Spirit of God evident in the
life of the believer.
Susie: His Holy Spirit
flows in, thru, and from us when we commit our lives to His saving care.
He speaks of eternal life, the thing we should really thirst after. Once we
belong to Jesus, we need never thirst for God again because He is with us
always in the form of the Holy Spirit, the Living Water.
John 7:38 Whoever
believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from
within them.”
John 4:15 The woman saith unto
him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
Susie:
Okay, once He spoke of eternal life, I really think she
should have had a clue that He was not talking about quenching her physical
thirst. I’ve heard preached that she may have jumped at the idea of not needing
to come to the well because her reputation would have drawn scorn from the
other women there.
Susan:
Instead of gossip at the water cooler, it was gossip at the
water well.
Susie:
Never being thirsty would be an excellent benefit, but Jesus
was offering her so much more!
Ways
we can apply this to our lives:
· We
often seek the temporal things we need—food, clothing, shelter—and God
graciously supplies these. However, our deepest need is to be freed from sin
and death by the grace of God.
· Living
Water, having an intimate relationship with God because of the indwelling of
the Holy Spirit, is available to all who trust in Jesus.
· Living
Water is an internal reality for those who believe in and trust Jesus as the
Son of God.
· We
need to “tap into” the Spirit in order to have abundant life in Jesus
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