Thursday Devotional - Jesus is Truth – Offering Living Water (10/19/23)

Have you ever gone in the grocery store for one item, but came home with dozens more? The outcast Samaritan woman went to the well to get water for the day, but Jesus offered her living, spiritual, and eternal water!

John 4:10-14   ¹⁰Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." ¹¹"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" ¹³Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

Jesus’s offer of living water wasn’t a list of rules but a way of life that would bring true satisfaction, joy, peace, and life with Him for all eternity! Just knowing and accepting Jesus’s truths won’t bring full satisfaction. We must know, accept, and then daily choose to live His way. 

It is kind of like taking piano lessons. I learned the names of the notes and the note values when I was very young. I then took piano lessons starting in 2^nd grade. Knowing the notes and accepting what the teacher taught me wasn’t enough for me to enjoy playing the piano. Just going to lessons each week wouldn’t get me very far. I had to daily spend time on the piano for years. It wasn’t always easy or convenient and required sacrificing free time (often at the coaxing of my Mom!). However, I’ve never regretted it and thank my parents for their financial sacrifice and regular accountability to practice. 

Similarly, if we just know some of the Bible stories, accept Jesus as the Christ, and go to church for an hour each week we won’t experience the life Jesus intended us to enjoy. We won’t be living as fully satisfied. We need to continually spend time getting to know and love Jesus and allow His Spirit to transform our desires and priorities. We won’t regret it!      

Do you know the truth? Have you received and accepted the truth? Are you and I still chasing after temporal things? Or are you and I living as fully satisfied with the “living water” Jesus offers? Only Jesus can truly and fully satisfy!

Alice