Just like the woman at the well in John 4, I feel myself continually walk the path to a well that will, or so I convince myself will, quench a thirst in my life. The things of the world overwhelm me with the promises of satisfaction.
Pure water is traded for sweetened water.
Moments of meaningless pride and pleasure are traded for encounters with the one who is true life.
Yet, somehow, someway, as I walk towards the very things that I hope to gain some sense of satisfaction from, I am met by Jesus. He reminds me the source of my thirst and its only remedy - Living Water.
Living Water, not flowing from a well but a being - Jesus Christ.
I wonder that he cares so much to continually come to meet me as I walk away from life to search for other means of satisfaction.
I wonder too whether I will ever learn to drink only of his living water. What joy and satisfaction would then be learned.
"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." - John 4:14
