Jesus and the Woman of Samaria (3)

In these notes we rejoin our Lord Jesus as He was engaged in conversation with this woman of Samaria, while they sat at Jacob’s well. We consider further the promises that Jesus gave to this woman, promises realized to her if she but knew and embraced in faith who He was. Her life, which had been characterized by disillusionment, disappointment, and degradation, nevertheless, could begin anew. Before her was the possibility of a new life filled with joy, peace, and righteousness--blessings that she had never known, but apparently had sought, but in the wrong ways, in the wrong places, with the wrong people. Jesus could enable her to never “thirst again”, but to have within her “a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” And so, where the conversation began with Jesus asking her for water from Jacob’s well, progressed to this woman requesting “living water” from Him. He who asks of her is also He who gives to her, and that freely and abundantly. And if He did so for her, who believed, He will do so for you and me who believe.