Much of the ministry of Jesus involved water. His first miracle was turning water into wine. He preached from the water, he pulled disciples from among the local fishermen, he was baptized in the water, and he spoke about water in his teaching. Water is a vital element for human life, and Jesus used that basic need to illustrate his message on many occasions in various ways.
When Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman by the well, he called himself Living Water. In that time, the metaphor would have been immediately understood, because the well was the center of life in every town. Everyone, no matter what their interests, no matter how rich or how poor, whatever their position in the social hierarchy, eventually had to come to the well. It was both a place for physical refreshment, as well as a place for social interaction. It was the center of everything, and it was likely the first place a traveler would go to upon entering the town.
Jesus is our water. He is waiting for each of us to come to the well of life that he provided with his death and resurrection.
Today, I am grateful for the physical thirst which reminds me of the need to drink of the Living Water of Jesus.
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