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Just A Thought: Dry and Thirsty

June 9, 2019 0 comments

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Jesus is met at Jacob's well by a Samaritan woman, who has come to draw water.  It’s amazing how Jesus leaps over the various barriers that separated Him from this woman.  He was a Rabbi, and according to the rabbinical law, Rabbis were instructed to never talk to a woman in public - not even to their own wives or sisters.  In fact the  rabbinical law said, it is better to burn the law than to give it to a woman.  In that culture women were regarded as totally unable to understand complicated subjects like theology and religion.

So, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well and asks her for a drink.  In their conversation we find out several things - she had five different husbands - her gender made her culturally inferior -  her race labeled her as one to be avoided and her lifestyle choices marked her as one to be condemned.  But Jesus ignored all the social barriers meant to separate them because His concern wasn’t for appearances; His concern was for people.  All people.  Hurting people.  Searching people.  People who make bad choices.  Empty people.  Because that’s all of us, right?

In John 4:15, the woman refers to the hassle of returning to the well so often to quench her thirst.  In the same way, she has repeatedly returned to the well of failed relationships to fill her emptiness, to quench her persistent disappointment.  In John 4:13-14, Jesus offered to heal a hurt the woman didn’t even realize she had.  Today He offers the same for us

“Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” - John 4:14

While we stuff ourselves on what the world offers - money, success, relationships, sex, possessions, and entertainment - the satisfaction is momentary at best.  Jesus offers us peace, joy, love and a relationship that is fulfilling.  Jesus alone satisfies our every need, quenches our every thirst, lasts forever, and never disappoints.  He approaches us in our current state and offers to meet our greatest need - the need for a Savior.

 

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