Read:John 4:7-15
Because it is so difficult in parts of the world to find clean
drinking water, an organization called Water Is Life developed a
wonderful resource called “The Drinkable Book.” The paper in the book is
coated in silver nanoparticles that filter out almost 99.9 percent of
harmful bacteria! Each tear-out page can be used and reused to filter up
to 100 liters of water at the cost of only four pennies per page.
The Bible is also an unusually “drinkable” Book. In John 4, we read of a particular kind of thirst and a special kind of water. The woman at the well needed much more than to quench her physical thirst with clean, clear liquid. She was desperate to know the source of “living water.” She needed the grace and forgiveness that comes from God alone.
God’s Word is the ultimate “drinkable” Book that points to God’s Son
as the sole source of “living water.” And those who accept the water
that Jesus gives will experience “a spring of water welling up to
eternal life” (v. 14).
The Bible is also an unusually “drinkable” Book. In John 4, we read of a particular kind of thirst and a special kind of water. The woman at the well needed much more than to quench her physical thirst with clean, clear liquid. She was desperate to know the source of “living water.” She needed the grace and forgiveness that comes from God alone.
Father, we yearn for the satisfaction that only You can give. Help us discard the things that leave us empty and thirsting, and exchange them for the satisfaction of the living water You offer.
Jesus is the sole source of living water.
INSIGHT:
The Samaritan woman thinks of “water” as purely material—just
H2O. So, in her conversation with Jesus, she is stuck on having to
trudge tiresomely back and forth daily to this well—perhaps a hundred
feet deep—and use muscle power to draw and hoist the container of water
homeward. Jesus’s statements symbolize salvation and satisfaction in
what is both essential and enjoyable in water; He wants to ratchet up
her understanding of eternal life in Him (John 4:14). Perhaps the
closest thing to a definition of “eternal life” is found in John 17:3:
“This is eternal life: that they might know you, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” Eternal life means having a
relationship with God by knowing Jesus Christ.
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