Week 2: Jesus Brings Life
What’s the deepest thirst you’ve ever felt? Have you ever had a longing that nothing seemed to quench? Jesus sees every hidden corner of your heart, every ache, every unspoken need. He doesn’t turn away from your past; He draws near with a gift that satisfies forever. In this story, Jesus meets a woman whose life was marked by shame and searching, and offers her living water. He offers true satisfaction and fulfillment. Today, let’s discover how Jesus knows you completely and still invites you to drink deeply of His life.
Read John 4:7-15 (ESV)
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
Reflection:
How does Jesus’ interaction with the woman challenge how you think about who He came to reach?
What do you think Jesus meant when He offered "living water," and how does that apply to your life?
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