It's here: Part 9 of the 9 part series - how to get prayers answered
The Rhythm of The Gospels - D22
DAILY DEVOTIONAL
7/23/20263 min read
She Came for Water. She Left With More.
The well that ends the thirst
"Jesus answered and said to her, 'Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.'" — John 4:13–14 (NKJV)
Maybe you know what it is to be thirsty for something you can't quite name.
Not hungry for food or tired from work thirsty. This thirst is coming from a place that sends you reaching for one thing after another. Hoping this one will finally satisfy, finding that it does for a moment and then doesn't. You reach again. It's an exhausting cycle. And the worst part is that after enough trips to the well, you start to wonder if the problem is you.
This particular Samaritan woman came at noon because that was the hour no one else came. The other women arrived in the cool of the morning, in groups, with the easy rhythm of community. She came alone, in the heat, when the well would be empty of everyone but her. John doesn't explain why. He doesn't need to. The hour tells you everything about a woman who had stopped trying to arrange her life around other people's eyes.
Jesus was sitting at the well when she arrived. He asked her for a drink. She was startled. A Jewish man didn't speak to a Samaritan woman, and certainly not alone at a well. But He said if you knew who was asking, you would ask Him for living water. Water that doesn't run out. A spring rising up inside you to eternal life.
The conversation moved deeper than either of them announced. Water became her history — five husbands, and the man she was living with now not her husband. Jesus didn't say it to shame her. He said it because He saw her. He didn't see the version she had learned to present in public. He saw the full story of years reaching for something solid in one relationship after another. Each time she came up empty. In their well discourse, He said the plainest, most astonishing thing: 'Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst again.'
"Sir give me this water that I may not thirst again' was her request.
When she realized Jesus was the Messiah, she left her water jar. She had come for water and walked away without it. She had found something that made the jar forgettable. She went back to the city and told everyone come see a Man who told me everything I ever did. The woman who had come alone to avoid the crowd went back to the very crowd she had been hiding from.
The jar she left behind said more than any sermon. She wasn't thirsty anymore.
What jar are you still carrying? What source of satisfaction have you been returning to that fills you for a moment and leaves you thirstier than before? Name it honestly. It might be a relationship, a habit, or an approval you keep chasing. Perhaps it a comfort that comforts less every time. Then sit at this well long enough to let Jesus see the full story . Don't try to present what you think he want to see. Let Him see the real one, you can't hide it from Him anyway. Leave the jar. You won't need it where this water takes you.
Scripture Promise:
"And the Spirit and the bride say, 'Come!' And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely." — Revelation 22:17 (NKJV)
Prayer:
Father, help me to put away all the false pretenses, you already know me well. Let me not be afraid to come to you just as I am, then allow your Holy Spirit to work in me. Thank you for being able to satisfy the thirst. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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