Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” (John 4:13–15, NIV 1984).
My Musings – We can criticize the Samaritan woman at the well for missing the point, but we continue to do much the same thing today. Jesus didn’t come to make our life comfortable, convenient, or crisis-free. “I have come that [you] may have life and have it to the full.” (John 10:10, NIV 1984).
A life without Christ can be comfortable, convenient, or crisis-free, but that is not “[having] it to the full” as Jesus meant. For “man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.” (Hebrew 9:27, NIV 1984). And those without Christ will spend eternity with a thirst that will never be quenched. A thirst for a relationship with their Creator that is no longer possible.
My Advice – “If [we] knew the gift of God and who it is that asks [us] for a drink, [we] would have asked Him, and he would have given [us] living water.” (John 4:10, NIV 1984). We must not let that be our epitaph. If I only knew. If I had only asked. We can know. We can ask. We will be given.
“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” (Psalm 42:1–2, NIV 1984). We all have that thirst. We think that comfort, convenience and a care-free life will satisfy that thirst. It may for a season, but not for eternity. Now is the time to “go and meet with God.” Where? At the foot of the cross.
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