What Well are You Drinking From?

Many of us are familiar with the story of the Samaritan woman at the well in the gospel of John. How Jesus had gone up to a well in Samaria, as a woman was doing the same. What transpired between them not only changed her life, but lives around the world on a daily basis. This was a woman of craving. A woman who was seeking. A woman constantly trying to find the next thing to satiate her need to feel known and loved.
Until she ran into love itself.

And interestingly enough, when He spoke to this Samaritan woman, He spoke the deeply personal words I’m sure she had needed to hear her entire life. Her years had been spent probably trekking up the same hill, over and over, carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders, and the weight of the water she needed to satisfy her aching thirst, a mirror to the condition of her heart. Of our hearts. When we as believers seek to have our thirsts quenched by anything other than Jesus, we may find a sense of relief for a time but ultimately will end up thirsty once more, trekking back up and down the hill, over and over, until that thing isn’t enough and you move onto the next. It isn’t a lasting fulfillment, when we run to people, places, or things in order to help us feel loved, seen, valued, at peace, have wisdom or anything else that it is God’s job to provide.

Even when we turn to things that are good, drinking from wells that were never meant for us to find fulfilment in ultimately leads us into bondage, burnout, and without peace.

John 4:14 “But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

In other words, through me (Christ), you will have everlasting life, and I will meet every need you have by dwelling within you and sending my spirit to do the same.
This Samaritan woman had gone to the well, thirsty and full or sorrow, and left without a drop of water from it, yet having what she needed in Him. She would never hunger or thirst anymore, this woman who had been through multiple husbands in order to satiate something only God could fill. We too, when we turn to Christ, and drink from his wellspring of waters will lack no good thing, having all our needs met in His love.

“Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?”

Not “everything that was ever done to me”, that wasn’t what Jesus was imparting to her. Yes, He knew her story intimately, as He does with us all, we don’t know the events that took place in this woman’s life to have led her down a path of continual searching, only that everything she had ever done was done out of that pain to cover that wound and make up for whatever had been barren in her life, to fill in a gap that was only meant for the Messiah.
And He invites us into that same graceful love.

“Come, see a man which told me all the things that I ever did…”

Or

“Come and see the man who saw me trying to put myself together and patiently waited for me and drew me back lovingly to His side so He could do what I never could. The man who satisfies every need I have ever had. I am fully known and loved by Him.”

Today, we want to encourage you to sit for a moment, and ask yourself: “What wells do I draw from in order to feel satisfied?”

Work? Your spouse? Kids? Good grades? Financial peace? A day without symptoms?

Instead of trying to find who we are in these things, may we instead turn to Christ, and drink from the living water, which quenches every deep thirst within us.

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