8th.: The Samaritan Woman’s Thirst
As we saw yesterday, Nicodemas initiated the conversation with Jesus.
At other times, Jesus initiates conversations.
John 4:7-15 gives an example where Jesus sat at a well in the region of Samaria.
Long after everyone else had left (it was at the heat of the day, when most people stayed home), a woman came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, ‘Give me to drink.’
The woman said, ‘How is it that you, being a Jew, asks drink of me?’
Jesus: “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.”
Woman: ‘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.’
Again, 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.
If we only only street smarts, He will speak with us at that level.
Where-ever we are, he will meet us there, 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)