But 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
Due to hundreds of years of racial prejudice, Jews did not travel through Samaria, but the Son of God does not let man’s social barriers determine His itinerary. On this day Jesus took the shorter route on His way from Jerusalem to Galilee. Tired and thirsty He sat down at Jacob’s well. Along came a woman with a spiritual need, a moral problem. Jesus broke with cultural and gender bias by asking the woman for a drink.
What sort of Jewish man would ask a Samaritan woman, the lowest of all human form, for water? A man who came to offer something besides heartache, sorrow, prejudice, isolation, abuse…..
This woman was in a downward spiral created by the choices she made according to her pleasure and need for instant and repeated gratification, or perhaps the circumstances of her birth into race, gender or socio-economic status, and maybe a tragic combination of all these things. Jesus offered her a life forgiven, renewed and eternal. She accepted His gift and brought as many people as would listen back to the Well of Living Water, aka Spring of Hope.
It’s still springing up for you too.
Just a sinner saved by Grace,
Gretchen