Seventh Day Baptist
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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.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
(ESV)
—John 4:4-14
by: Katie Brown.
Jesus spoke to the woman at the well with compassion and shared the truth of His mission on earth. He offered her (and us) something more life-giving than physical water. Jesus was the prophesied Messiah, who lived and died so that we may have eternal life with God. He took away the sin, guilt, and shame that prevented us from being right with God. This is the refreshing living water that fills our soul through the gift of the Holy Spirit—God living in us. May we be as eager as the Samaritan woman was to tell everyone the good news of Christ.
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