Living Water

It was midday, the sun blazing overhead, when Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down beside a well in Samaria. The disciples had gone into town to buy food, leaving Him alone. As He rested, a woman approached, carrying her jar to draw water. She was a Samaritan—someone Jews typically avoided—but Jesus spoke first:

“Would you give me a drink?”

Startled, she asked, “How is it that You, a Jew, speak to me, a Samaritan woman?”

Jesus replied gently, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for water, you would ask Him—and He would give you living water.”

Confused, she said, “Sir, You have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where will You get this living water? Are You greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again. But whoever drinks the water I give will never thirst. It will become a spring within them, welling up to eternal life.”

Her heart stirred. “Sir, give me this water so I won’t thirst or have to come here again.”

Then Jesus said, “Go, call your husband.”

“I have no husband,” she replied.

“You’re right,” Jesus said. “You’ve had five husbands, and the man you’re with now is not your husband.” -gospels Mathew and Luke

In that moment, she realized—this stranger knew her story. Not as gossip, not as judgment, but as truth spoken with grace. Many assume she was an adulteress, but I would say she was a woman cast aside and abandoned, broken by circumstances beyond her control. She came to the well at noon, avoiding the other women whose lives seemed perfect, whose laughter reminded her of what she lacked. She wanted solitude—but instead, she found the Savior.

Jesus saw her. Heard her. Valued her. He spoke to the deepest longing of her soul: “You’ve sought fulfillment in men, but they could not satisfy. I offer you more—living water. Immerse yourself in Me, and you will find rest.”

That day, her shame gave way to hope. She tasted grace and discovered her true identity—not in her past, but in the One who called her beloved.

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