John 4:5-14 He Will Give You Living Water

So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;  and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”  For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.  Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)  Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”  She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?  You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?”  Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

“If you knew the gift of God who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would give you living water.”  Is this any different today.  If only we understand who Jesus is, that is, the Son of God, will we put him second in our lives?  What we have is an intellectual knowledge of God and Christ, but not a living knowledge of Him.  We continually underestimate his ability and willingness to bless us and to lift us up.  Instead, we say things like “I am determined to work hard for my reward.”  But the reward has already  been earned by Christ.  So let go and let God who is willing and able to do all that you can imagine.  In Jesus name I pray Amen.