See John, Chapter 4
The woman drew forth the precious water that would sustain her temporally.
Before her sat the Christ, the “living water” who could save her spiritually.
He sought to give her that which she lacked and sorely needed.
She would do well to listen and make sure His words were closely heeded.
At first her heart was hard and full of suspicion and doubt,
she was callous and confused about what life was all about.
She had lived a hard life, despised and looked down upon by others without mercy-
her past not acceptable to them and many judged her unfairly.
She was one of the first to hear him testify of his role as the Messiah.
She believed and hastened to tell others in her small town in Samaria.
The Master knows each of us like no other can.
He knows what we need and is there to provide the healing balm.
Just as water brings life to every living thing,
Jesus is the “living water”-an oasis in the desert to every parched human being.
The words of Christ and His atoning grace can replenish any spiritual drought.
For if we drink we are promised life eternal-of this there is no doubt.
January 2023
John 4: 7, 9-14 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 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. 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. 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? 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.
John 4: 25-26 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
John 4: 28-30 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
Susan H. Porter, “Lessons at the Well”, General Conference, April 2022
“Consider the woman at the well. What was her life like? Jesus perceived that she had had five husbands and was currently not married to the man she was living with. And yet, despite her life’s difficulties, one of the Savior’s first public declarations that He was the Messiah was to her. He said, “I that speak unto thee am he.”
She became a powerful witness, declaring to those in her city that Jesus was the Christ. “And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman.” Her past and present circumstances did not determine her future. Like her, we can choose to turn to the Savior today for the strength and healing that will enable us to fulfill all that we were sent here to do.”
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