In The Word
Read: John 4:1-26
Jesus Goes to Galilee
4 So then, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that He was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing; rather, His disciples were), 3 He left Judea and went away again to Galilee. 4 And He had to pass through Samaria. 5 So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was just sitting by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
The Woman of Samaria
7 A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.”8 For His disciples had gone away to the city to buy food. 9 So the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, though You are a Jew, are asking me for a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 She *said to Him, “Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water? 12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
15 The woman *said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw water.” 16 He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said to Him, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this which you have said is true.” 19 The woman *said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.” 21 Jesus *said to her, “Believe Me, woman, that a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.23 But a time is coming, and even now has arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman *said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26 Jesus *said to her, “I am He, the One speaking to you.”
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Walking In The Word
Yeshua, being tired from His journey, stopped at a well for a drink of water. His disciples went ahead to buy food, and while they were gone, He encountered a Samaritan woman (half Jew, half Gentile). Yeshua asked her to give Him a drink of water. Knowing He was a Jew, she was amazed that He would even speak to a Samaritan. Yeshua was not only there to get water, but to show her who He truly was. He was (and ever will be) the living water, and all who drank of Him would never thirst again. Then, Yeshua explained to her that she truly did not understand worship.
Worship is not about a physical location that we go to, but it is established in spirit and in truth. We worship Yahweh in spirit, but we must also worship in truth, which is Yeshua. He said that He is the way, the truth, and the life. This shows that any religion or denomination that says they worship God, but denies Yeshua and the fullness of Him (His word), is not a true worshiper.
Are you in a place where you are wearied and parched spiritually? It could be that you have not truly taken in the living water which our Lord has offered you. If you ask, He will give. His water is the Word which will satisfy our souls and cleanse us. Do not journey on this life without Him, but decide to drink of His living water and thirst no more.