Drawing the Living Water with Joy

UV 3597/10000. Drawing The Living Water with Joy She said to Him, “ Sir, You have nothing to draw with ( no bucket and rope) and the well Is deep. Where thine do You get that living water?” John 4 v 11 Jesus spoke about the “Good Samaritan” man but spoke to a Samaritan woman at a well in Samaritan town called Sychar. The Samaritan is a metaphor or term to describe the most unlikely person, in the parable, to render help to a man waylaid by robbers. Likewise, the woman was the most unlikely person to be a messenger of the good news that God had sent the Messiah Jesus to give eternal life through the eternal word or the water of the hope of eternal life. Scripture exhorts us to draw water from the well of the Word of God with joy. Jesus did not need a bucket or rope to draw the water of eternal life for He Himself is that well. The word is described as living water as the word is enough to meet all our deepest needs in our lives. Our deepest need for forgiveness is met in it and met in Jesus. Our deepest need for strength, grace and wisdom is met in the word. Our deepest need for eternal life is met in the word. The Samaritans were social outcasts as far as Jews were concerned. The Samaritan woman in question was an outcast among outcasts for she was both much married (five times- a record besting that of Elizabeth Taylor) and then living with another man. Jesus revealed her past and then, revealed His true identity as the Christ, the One anointed to be Messiah of both Jews and Gentiles including Samaritans. The woman moved in her inner faith from thinking He was a prophet to wondering if He was the Messiah. She carried the news that He might be the Messiah sent by God since He had knowledge about both her entire past and her present, too. The Samaritans of the town were intrigued and came to Jesus as she told them about what had transpired but they believed Jesus as they heard Him directly. Likewise, people to this day believe Jesus to be the source of eternal life not because someone told them but they heard directly from the Lord and are convicted. Jesus taught and enabled a deep thing to the Samaritan woman to replace shallow and superficial traditional faith or religion. He enabled her to perceive that despite her sinful past and present, she like all others could worship God in spirit and truth, once they place their trust in Jesus. We, too need to worship God in spirit and in the truth or the beauty of holiness- a steely resolve to listen to the indwelling Holy Spirit and live from improvement to improvement in the actual facts of our lives. The Samaritan woman probably had to leave the man who was then living with her or marry him to be able to live in truth. We cannot be sinless like Jesus but we can certainly sin less with the help of the word of eternal life and the enablement of the Holy Spirit. We need to live the fantastic truths of heaven in the midst of the horrible facts and miserable reality of this world.