John 4 - So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 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.) 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.” 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? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.[b] The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”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.”
Here we have a passage that throws up many angles and perspectives. There are many questions to why Jesus went through Samaria and what made him stop at Jacob's Well. We see that Jesus, as tired as he was, stopped and sat on the well. The woman came along and came to draw water, this signifies that her soul is not satisfied, she has been going back and forth looking for something to satisfy her soul. Have you been looking for something to satisfy for you soul?
Jesus asks the woman for a drink, but the woman, oblivious to what's actually taking place says that they shouldn't be talking to each other because it's not common for Jews and Samaritans to hang around with each other. Jesus then told her that if only she knew who she was talking to and what he could give her, she would be asking him for a drink.
So, we then see that Jesus says that if she kept on drinking the water, she always be thirsty, her soul will always be unsatisfied but if she drinks of the water he gives out, she will never be thirsty again. Without second thought, she told Jesus to give her the water so that she will not be thirsty ever again.
We don't here from this woman again which may signify that because of her encounter with Jesus, her soul is now restored.During the woman's interaction with God, we see that she had 5 husbands and the man she was living with was not her husband.
Could this tell us something ourselves. Before we encountered Jesus, we were involved in many things which we thought could satisfy us but time after time, we find we are not satisfied so we go back again and again looking and searching for something that could satisfy us.
How did you feel?
Whilst pondering on this subject of Restoration, a popular passage popped up - Psalm 23:2- 3 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake
Could it possibly be that the whole time, Jesus was waiting for the woman because he wanted to restore her soul.
The Living Water is a type of water that will restore you, that will satisfy your soul. No longer will you thirst after the worldly things of today.
John 7:37-38 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. To the one who believes in Me, it is just as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”…
Are you thirsty for God? Do you need God to restore your soul? Are you looking for something to satisfy you? Come to God, he has what you need to satisfy you, he can restore your soul.
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