Jesus said, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst”
John 4:13-
Poems
“But He [Jesus] needed to go through Samaria. So He came to a city of Samaria which
is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now
Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus
by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." -
The village of Sychar is in Samaria and it nestles beneath Mount Gerizim. In this
village there lived a woman whose life was scarred by past relationships. She’d had
five husbands and she was presently living with a man who wasn’t her husband. As
she made her way to the well with her waterpot, she noticed a weary Jewish traveller
sat by the well, resting. She little realised as she approached the well, her encounter
with this Jewish Rabbi would dramatically change her life! She was to find out that
it would be He, the seventh Man, who would make the difference! She was unaware that
to the eyes of this unassuming wayfarer ‘all things are naked and open’. Though having
never met her before, He, the Observer of men’, was aware of every shady nook and
cranny in her sinful life. She was also to discover that He “did not come to judge
the world but to save the world.” She was worthy of judgment, as we all are, but
she also discovered that ‘a bruised reed He will not break.’ As the conversation
progressed she became increasingly aware that this Man was different. His greatness
began to dawn on her, as He gently revealed His in-
“The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?’”
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Having left her waterpot, her own body was to be the earthen vessel in which the good news of Christ’s living water, would be carried!
by Neil Short
Go call your husband
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