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In the story of Jesus and the Woman of Samaria, also known as the Woman at the Well, Jesus is going through Samaria on his way back to Galilee, and he runs into a woman getting water from a well. John 4:1-42.
As with all human beings, she has brokenness in her life: She goes to the well at 12 p.m. instead of the early morning with the other women from her town, perhaps because she is shunned or is trying to avoid seeing people. As a woman she has no/very few rights. She has been married five times and is currently with a man but they are not married.
Jesus initiates a conversation with her and then reveals himself to be the living water that gives eternal life. Jesus tells the woman that God the Father desires that people worship him in spirit and in truth. And she says, "I know that [the] Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us." Jesus says, "I am he, the one who is speaking with you."
She desired a Messiah, the one who makes all things new. She was thirsting to be embraced and to be made whole. The woman was open in her encounter with Jesus, and found in him her Savior who offered her freedom and salvation. She received the living water.
What are we thirsting for?
Are we open to how Jesus is speaking to us in our lives?
Jesus wants to be our living water. Do we turn to him as our sustenance?
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