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There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."
For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."
She said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?
"You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?"
Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water with thirst again;
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw."
He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."
The woman answered and said, " I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';
for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly."
The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
"Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
"You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
"But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth' for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us."
Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He."
(John 4:7-26)
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Today, when looking at this passage, I was struck by a couple things. First, we are created to worship. That's how God's made us human beings. Secondly, the only way we can be fully satisfied is by worshiping the Lord; in spirit and in truth. God wants us to do so. And if we don't, we will worship other, worldly things and be wholly unsatisfied. In the case of the Samaritan woman, it was men. She had been married five times, and at the time was with a man she wasn't married to. For us it can be many things that we can make into our "idols" to worship in place of God: sex, drugs, or even our jobs, television, or a myriad other things. And just like the woman was unsatisfied with five husbands, we will be unsatisfied with things that are "idols" to us. When we worship something we've put in place of God, we'll always be left feeling empty and wanting something more. But with God, it's different. He is the something more. When we worship him, in spirit and in truth, we will never be unsatisfied. With Him, we find our true satisfaction in life. We were made to worship Him and bring glory to Him, and when we do so, we fulfill part of our purpose here on Earth.
So let's drink up that living water, and praise God for the hope and purpose in life that He gives us!
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thank you.
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