Reflecting God: Devotions For Holy Living ~ Monday, 17 February 2013 ~ “Jesus Satisfies the Hungry Soul” John 4

Reflecting God: Devotions For Holy Living ~ Monday, 17 February 2013 ~ “Jesus Satisfies the Hungry Soul” John 4:1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), 3 he left Judea, and departed into Galilee. 4 He needed to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.[a] 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered 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.”

11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

Footnotes:

a. John 4:6 noon

“Jesus Satisfies the Hungry Soul” by Carla D. Sunberg

It was 114 degrees Fahrenheit on a Sunday afternoon and Carla was in a boat crossing over the Sea of Galilee. She had been warned that she would need to have water with her the entire time because dehydration could come quickly and suddenly. While baking on that boat she understood why the disciples would often wait and fish at night or hide in the shade in the middle of the day.

It could easily have been in this type of heat that Jesus stopped to rest and ask for a drink from the woman at the well in Samaria. She was obviously an outcast because no one in their right mind would go to draw water in the middle of the day, unless they had no other choice. When Jesus told her he had water that would quench her thirst forever, she was certainly excited. It would solve the problem of coming to the well day after day.

But Jesus was talking about a new kind of water, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit who would come and quench the dryness of our spiritual lives. It is the Spirit who quenches our daily thirst for Him!

Hymn For Today:

“Come, Every One Who is Thirsty” by Lucy J. Rider

1. Come, every one who is thirsty in spirit,

Come, everyone who is weary and sad.

Come to the fountain; there's fullness in Jesus -

All that you're longing for. Come and be glad.

Refrain

"I will pour water on him that is thirsty;

I will pour floods upon the dry ground.

Open your heart for the gift I am bringing.

While you are seeking Me I will be found."

Thought For Today:

“For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished”(Jeremiah 31:25).

Prayer Needs:

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