Water

Water. You really never know how important water is in your life until it’s taken away from you. On Tuesday afternoon we found that we no longer had water in our house. So, after checking the breakers and a few other things, we narrowed it down to either the well went dry because of the lack of rain the last two months or the pump in the well went bad. We did have a brief storm last week that we feel lightening may have went in on it and started the process of it going bad.

Luckily, after calling about five different plumbers, we got one to come out after supper on Tuesday and pull the pump and replace it. As I sat out there at the pump, with my little guy asking the plumber a thousand questions, I started thinking about the story of the woman at the well that met Jesus because He knew He had a meeting with her.

“A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?” - John 4:7-11.

Living water!  As we sat for a few hours at the house with no running water (but plenty of bottled water) we came to realize how blessed we are to live in a place where water is not a scarcity. There are place around the world that people have to trek miles to get water and that water isn’t in any way clean enough to drink. But we also live in a country that has ample access to the Living Water, Jesus Christ, that those around the world do not have access to like we do. I pray that God’s Word goes out to those who long for this Living Water just like the woman at the well.

“How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!" - Romans 10:14-15.

“Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water." - John 4:13-15.

Lord, give me this water so that I will never thirst again!  Praise God!

Have a great day and God bless.