That’s what I heard this week after I called a well guy to come take a look at our well. The past few months when all the kids are home and all 13 of us are taking showers, doing laundry, running the dishwasher numerous times, we have been running out of water. If we wait about an hour the well replenishes itself and we are good to go. The combination of the well being 21 years old and not much rain or snow last year makes a dry well. “You have 2 options: 1) tie into city water ($$$$$) or 2)wait it out to see if we get enough precipitation to build the reserve back up.” I prayed for the later. We have gotten a bit of rain this week so we will see how things go when all the kids are here for Christmas.
Jesus offered a woman at a well very special water:
A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, “Would you give me a drink of water?” (His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.) The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, “How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (Jews in those days wouldn’t be caught dead talking to Samaritans.) Jesus answered, “If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water.”
The woman said, “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this ‘living water’? Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?” Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst—not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life.” The woman said, “Sir, give me this water so I won’t ever get thirsty, won’t ever have to come back to this well again!” John 4:7-15 The Message
Jesus was claiming to be the Messiah who would bring living water that would quench a person’s soul. We all are searching for something to fill the void in our hearts. Jesus is the only thing that can satisfy that desire.
We celebrate the birth of the Messiah in a couple days. He is the same yesterday, today and forever: God with us.
On the journey,
Trish