Are You Drawing from the Right Well?

Now [Jesus] had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

This Scripture is found in John 4:4-14 in the Bible. Jesus had an encounter with a woman who would have been shunned by most others in the city, yet Jesus loved her despite her reputation and "baggage." In fact, He offered her the greatest gift that could ever be received by a human being -- eternal life. 

Jesus knew that she had a great thirst in her life for more than what the world could offer. Perhaps you too are searching for a greater purpose or meaning that will satisfy and fulfill you completely. This woman goes unnamed, perhaps so that we can all identify with her in one way or another. Jesus still calls you to come and drink freely from His well of living water. No chains are attached to His bucket and it never runs dry. Drink up!