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When Jesus met a Samaritan woman by Jacob’s well near Sychar, he offered her more than she could have ever imagined. Rather than physical water that might offer temporary relief from thirst, he offered living water that had the power to transform her life and alleviate every thirst. Have you tasted that water?
Jesus teaches that living water is none other than the Holy Spirit, and Jesus offers that spiritual water without limit to those who follow Him.
“The gift and the presence of the Holy Spirit is the greatest and most wonderful thing which we can experience – we ourselves, the human community, all living things and the earth. For with the Holy Spirit it is not just one random spirit that is present, among all the many good and evil spirits that there are. It is God himself, the creative and life giving, redeeming and saving God. Where the Holy Spirit is present, God is present in a special way, and we experience God through our lives, which become wholly living from within. We experience whole, full, healed, and redeemed life, experience it with our senses. We feel and taste, we touch and see our life in God and God in our life.”
Jürgen Moltmann, The Source of Life (Fortress Press, 1997): 10.
This is what happened to the woman at the well. In her joy and satisfaction with life, she left her water jar telling everyone, “Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did” (John 4:29). She was no longer an outcast or someone carrying the pain of five marriages and a live-in boyfriend. She had the living water that gave her new energy and life.
Have you tasted that water? Has God so touched your soul that you feel refreshed and alive?
“Come, all you who are thirsty,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money, come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
And your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
And your soul will delight in the richest of fare” (Isaiah 55:1-2).
This is what Jesus offers to you today. Your life does not have to be an endless roller coaster. You can find peace for today by listening to Jesus’ voice. Let Him in your life today.
