I doubt whether there is any person who would not understand the importance of water for survival. In fact, next to air, water is the most important substance for life.
In John 4:4-8, we read how Jesus became tired and stopped to rest beside the well of Jacob. While His disciples were buying food in a nearby town, a Samaritan woman arrived at the well to draw water. Jesus, being thirsty, asked her for a drink from the well. Immediately, she reminded him that she was a Samaritan, and He was a Jew.
You see, Jews believed the Samaritans were unclean. Another fact to consider is that this woman was at the well alone at high noon. More than likely, because of the life she was leading, she also was considered unclean and came to the well at a time when no one else would see her.
We know her story. She had been married many times and was in need of a Savior, and Jesus met her need. He told her:
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:13-14).
Christ confronted the deepest need of this woman and offered her a chance to begin a new life. He was essentially telling her, The more you drink from the world’s water, the worse your thirst will become.
Are you restless and discontent? Just as He offered living water to the woman at the well, He offers it to you. When you surrender your life to Jesus, asking Him into your life, receiving him by faith, your are then saved by grace, never too be thirsty again.
Rev Ran 🙂