8th.: The Samaritan Woman’s Thirst
There are times when Jesus initiates a conversation.
One day, Jesus sat at a well in the region of Samaria (John 4:7-15).
It was in the heat of mid-day. Everyone else had gone home.
When along came a woman.
Jesus said to her, ‘Give me to drink.’
The woman said, ‘How is it that you, being a Jew, asks drink of me?’
Jesus then dropped a loaded comment:
“If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you’
‘Give me to drink’, you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.”
The woman did not pick up Jesus' sub-text, ‘You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep, from where then have you that living water?’
Jesus: ‘Whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst,
but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.’
Woman: ’Sir give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come here.’
Jesus caused someone to be filled with many questions about advanced spiritual concepts.
If we are well-educated, like Nicodemus, He will speak with us at that level.
Jesus will speak with us at whatever we are,
and give us something to satisfy our thirst.
“I stretch forth my hands unto thee; my soul thirsts after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.” (Ps. 143:6)