{"id":19697,"date":"2014-05-16T00:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T04:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=19697"},"modified":"2014-05-16T00:45:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T04:45:52","slug":"living-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/16\/living-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jesus replied,\u201dIf you only knew the gift God has for you
\nand Who you are speaking to,
\nyou would ask Me, and I would give you living water\u201d
\nJohn 4:10<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We don\u2019t know her name and we don\u2019t know how old she is but her conversation with Jesus is the longest one recorded in the Bible. \u00a0Jesus intentionally chose this particular well as His resting stop. \u00a0He was tired from traveling. \u00a0His disciples went into town for food so He waited for them there. \u00a0As we all know, this was planned. \u00a0He knew she would be there. \u00a0She had a clay jar to fill up with the water from Jacob\u2019s well.<\/p>\n

Now, Jews weren\u2019t supposed to talk to Samaritans and men weren\u2019t supposed to talk to women without their husband being present. \u00a0But Jesus didn\u2019t pay attention to those rules and He spoke to her directly. \u00a0He asked her for a drink. \u00a0She replied, \u00a0\u201cYou are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman, how can You ask me for a drink?\u201d Jesus responded with the verse (4:10) above—that the water He was offering was Living Water and that she would never thirst again. \u00a0Of course, she didn\u2019t understand. \u00a0She asked Him where His rope and bucket are and she wanted to know where He would get this water from. \u00a0Jesus took the time to minister to her and share with her His love and the life that was intended for her.<\/p>\n

Jesus replies,\u201dAnyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again.
\nBut those who drink the water that I give will never be thirsty again.
\nIt becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.\u201d
\nJohn 4:13<\/p>\n

Of course the woman wants this! \u00a0She asked Him for the water, so that she doesn\u2019t have to come to the well ever again. \u00a0I imagine that she doesn\u2019t enjoy the looks of other people and the shunning from the other women, for she lived a life of sin. \u00a0So Jesus told her to go get her husband and she replied,\u2019I don\u2019t have a husband.\u2019 Jesus responded, \u2019You\u2019re right, you don\u2019t just have one husband, you have five husbands and you aren\u2019t even married to them. You\u2019re just living with them\u2019. \u00a0She is floored that He knew all about her and she asks if He is a prophet and a couple of other questions about Samaritans and Jews. \u00a0Can you imagine what the people around them were thinking? \u00a0Don\u2019t you know that Jesus didn\u2019t care what they thought? \u00a0All He cared about was her and wanting her to know that she is loved and that she was forgiven and that He cared about her.<\/p>\n

Jesus gravitated towards the mess of other people’s lives and loved on the ones the world considered unloveable. \u00a0And because He did this, she had a new story to tell to anyone who would listen. \u00a0 She knew there was a Messiah coming but she didn\u2019t know she was talking to Him. \u00a0Jesus told her eventually and the disciples returned and, of course, they asked why Jesus was talking to her. \u00a0(Did they even need to ask?) \u00a0Jesus loves her. \u00a0The story ends with the woman leaving her jar beside the well and running back to her village telling everyone to come and see the man that told her everything she ever did and that she believed was the Messiah. \u00a0So all sorts of people came from her village to see Jesus. \u00a0I imagine there were quite a few lives changed that day, all because Jesus showed this particular woman grace and love.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what your story is but I do know that Jesus does and He loves you in spite of who you are and what you may\u00a0have done. \u00a0And if you are a Jesus follower, I pray that you will go to those who are hurting and those who aren\u2019t in your circle of friends. \u00a0If we simply stay in our comfort zones, then we will not have the opportunity to share the love of Jesus. \u00a0This is the most important decision that anyone will ever make. \u00a0This world is so full of hurt and hatred that we as His children really need to be the hands and feet of Jesus and move toward the mess of others lives. In the end, all that matters is what Jesus thinks of us. The world may shun us for choosing to love the sinners, the gossipers, the thieves, the adulterers and the addicts of the world but we are all sinners and we all fall short. \u00a0But His grace is free to all who want it! \u00a0And then life after life will be changed and all who hear will want to tell anyone who will listen about our Jesus.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What about you? \u00a0Do you want His grace today? \u00a0Do you want this living water that Jesus is offering you today? \u00a0If so, then all you have to do is ask. \u00a0Start by saying:<\/p>\n

Dear Jesus, I know that I am a sinner. \u00a0I need Your forgiveness and grace. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I believe that You are the Savior and You died to save me. \u00a0I want You to come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. \u00a0Thank You for your love for me. \u00a0In Your name I pray, amen.<\/p>\n

If you just prayed this prayer for the first time or, if you have rededicated your life today, we want to celebrate with you! \u00a0It\u2019s the first day of the rest of your life!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesus replied,\u201dIf you only knew the gift God has for you and Who you are speaking to, you would ask Me, and I would give you living water\u201d John 4:10 We don\u2019t know her name and we don\u2019t know how old she is but her conversation with Jesus is the longest one recorded in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6228],"tags":[6330,338,425,6328,589,6329,938],"class_list":["post-19697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encouragement-2","tag-being-his-hands-and-feet","tag-encouragement","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-john-45-23","tag-kim-spring","tag-loving-others","tag-scripture","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-57H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19708,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions\/19708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}