When the Samaritan woman went to the well to draw water that day she went in the afternoon during the hottest hour of the day when she knew no one else would be there. She was trying to avoid seeing anyone. Because of things she had done in the past, having five failed marriages and living with a man who was not her husband I’m sure she was the “talk of the town” and she learned to avoid rejection by avoiding the other town women, her peers.

Imagine the rejection she felt not only from those women but from the five men she was married to. In those days only a man could divorce a woman.

That day she went to the well, like any other day to get water, not expecting to see anyone let alone the Messiah. Jesus spoke to her with the same respect that He would have given His own mother and He even knew who and what she was!

As Jesus continued in converstation with that woman she learned of the living water He had for her, the Holy Spirit.

She became so thirsty and desperate for this living water that she left her water jug, everything that she had known, and ran to tell everyone in the town of her experiences. The Samaritan woman became an evangelist in Shechem and many from that town believed in Him because of her testimony.

Too often we try to drink of the “worldly wells” hoping to be fulfilled but they fail to satisfy us. If you are desperate and thirsty, let Jesus give you that living water. He is waiting by the well for YOU!

The way to drink the living water is through prayer. Ask Jesus into your life. Admit you have sinned. Believe that He died for you and your sins. Confess those sins to Him and He will fill you with the living water giving you and endless supply of wisdom, love, grace, peace, joy, and more.