Post by Woody Williams on Feb 24, 2008 7:44:44 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- John 4:5-14
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So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground
that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and
Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was
about noon.
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me
a drink’. (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The
Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink
of me, a woman of Samaria?’ (Jews do not share things in common 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 no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you
get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who
gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?’
Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty
again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will
never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a
spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’
Devotional
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Water is a much-used symbol for that which quenches spiritual thirst.
Jesus speaks of "living" water that brings fresh, vibrant spiritual
life. This water is the living presence of Jesus that indwells and
re-vitalizes the believer, manifesting the life of Christ that is in
them. Turn your life toward receiving that living water.
Prayer
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Renew my life today, Lord, by your living presence. Amen
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So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground
that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and
Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was
about noon.
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me
a drink’. (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The
Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink
of me, a woman of Samaria?’ (Jews do not share things in common 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 no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you
get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who
gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?’
Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty
again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will
never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a
spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’
Devotional
----------
Water is a much-used symbol for that which quenches spiritual thirst.
Jesus speaks of "living" water that brings fresh, vibrant spiritual
life. This water is the living presence of Jesus that indwells and
re-vitalizes the believer, manifesting the life of Christ that is in
them. Turn your life toward receiving that living water.
Prayer
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Renew my life today, Lord, by your living presence. Amen