"Give me a drink."

John 4:4-9, And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

We see that like us, Jesus was tired from His journey. We see that like us He was thirsty, and that like us, He and his disciples needed to buy food, for they were hungry. And we see that unlike us, He was willing to ask for a drink from a woman that His own culture had no dealings with. And even more than that He offers her living water, that wells up to a life-giving spring, and offer that is still good for us all. In His strength as a man he was limited; in the power of the Holy Spirit He was able to bring this woman out of death into life! Are we asking Him for His living water that we might never thirst again, that streams of living water might well up to eternal life?

Give us Your living water that satisfies our thirst and let it well up to eternal life!

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