THE WATER OF IMMORTALITY

but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."  (John 4:14 NKJV)                                          

One morning, when the land was carpeted with flowers of spring, a woman awoke in the little town of Sychar that lay in the lap of the twin mountains, Ebal and Gerizim. She didn’t realize that that day would revolutionize, not her own life only, but that of untold thousands. Throughout its happenings her story would be embalmed in the history of the race, and she would take the first step which, as tradition says, ended in martyrdom.

Her nature was passionate and intense. The well was deep! She had sought to satisfy her heart with human love, but in vain, and she had ceased to believe in love. Her character was gone, and her neighbors would not tolerate her presence at the ancient well, so that she had no alternative but to carry her pitcher there in the sultry noon, instead of in the cool of the late afternoon, when the women came to draw their water.

She was not destitute of religion. There was the ancient tradition of Jacob's faith, for he had lived within sight of these hills and had drunk of that well. She believed in this ancestral religion, which had existed in its sublime simplicity before the division arose between Jew and Samaritan, and had listened to many discussions as to the rival claims of the temples at Jerusalem and Gerizim. She also believed that some day the long-looked for Messiah would appear, and explain all things. In the meanwhile, however, she was sick and weary at heart. Her daily lonely visit to the well seemed to epitomize her inner experience. "Give me, stranger," she seemed to say, "anything that will appease this soul-thirst, and restore to me the years that the locust and cankerworm have eaten. Then I shall cease to thirst and go there to draw water!"

Is she not the type of so many lost souls today? Some of you have drunk of all the wells dug by human hands, and have found them salty or dry and unable to satisfy your soul thirst. Maybe you have turned from them all with the ancient verdict: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Is that your circumstance now, my friend? Then, it may be, that He who came far out of His usual way to find and help this distraught soul, is near to you also, waiting to open those hidden springs of which, if a individual drinks, they shall never thirst again.  Won’t you drink of the water of eternal life?  Jesus is offering it to you.  Will you reject His water?

PRAYER

O Christ, who sat at Jacob's well, give me a drink of the water of life, and to hear Your voice, which is as music; let that spring, of which You spoke to the woman, rise up within my heart unto eternal life. I ask it in Your name, AMEN.

God's Daily Promise

Promise #34:
I knew you before you were born and I designed you for My purposes.

Jeremiah 1:5 (WEB)
“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you.
Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you.
I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”