Woman At A Well Series

Do you know what this living water that Jesus is talking about is? Let me be real plain… It’s none other than the Spirit of the Living God! Now since Jesus is God in flesh, He’s the only one who can offer Himself in Spirit form! You might say He’s got an “exclusive distributorship”. I can personally testify this morning to the benefits of having this living water! While non-Christians around me have souls that are as stagnant and dried out as an old cistern…God’s Spirit in me makes my soul fresh and hydrated.

Now listen, because Jesus extends a personal invitation for every person here this morning to drink from His spring of living water! He wants to give you a soul that won’t stagnate and will never run out! It’s like a spring of living water. See, the beauty of a spring is that you never have to re-fill it! There’s a constant supply of water. God Spirit is infinite and so when I’m dry and worn out… He’s got more than enough of what I need!

• When I’m worn out and don’t think I can go on at work or make it through a trial… I call to Him and His strength and power bubble up in me.

• When I need wisdom to deal with a tough situation, or a family problem… I call out to Him and His wisdom bubbles up within me!

• When I’m anxious about my finances, or how my wife is going to get a job… His peace gurgles and bubbles up in my soul and I can stop worrying!

• Whatever I need… whether it’s faith, or patience, or joy or courage, or love for someone I don’t particularly like…the spring of His Spirit bubbles up within me and I have more than enough!

That’s what true worship is… it’s seeking and finding my fulfillment and the answers to all of my problems and needs in HIM! Why go to the dry wells that the world offers, when I have the living water of God’s Spirit available at any moment, night or day? When you really seek after the living God, you never have to (or want to) go after the things of the world again to find fulfillment and happiness…all you need is in Him!

Reminds me of a song I used to sing in Sunday School as a kid…

I've got a river of life flowing out of me!

Makes the lame to walk, and the blind to see.

Opens prison doors, sets the captives free!

I've got a river of life flowing out of me!

Spring up, O well, within my soul!

Spring up, O well, and make me whole!

Spring up, O well, and give to me

That life abundantly!

Now, at this point, the woman is almost convinced. In fact, she even asks for this “living water”, in vs.15… “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me some of that water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to haul water.” After hearing that, you gotta wonder about her motive don’t you? Does she want the living water because she realizes her deep need for it, or does she want it because it sounds like it will make life easier? After-all, she wouldn’t have to come out to the well everyday to get more! A lot of people are like that… they want Jesus because they think He’ll make their life easier! In reality, they don’t want Jesus, they want what they think He can DO for them! Of course, if life doesn’t get easier… they quickly fall away and look for something else!