Living Well of Water
“Jesus wanted her to understand. ‘Folks who drink this water will get thirsty again and again,’ He said. “The water I give has nothin’ to do with this well. Anyone who drinks My water will never have to be thirsty again in his soul, like you are right now. Ya see, the water I give will be like an everlastin’ spring that will take you right on through this life and the next” John 4:13-14 (The Gospel of John Cowboy Style).
Have you ever seen an artesian water well? Years ago, in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, I saw what my kin folks explained was an artesian well. What I saw was water bubbling up and flowing through the crevices of a rock. And from that life-giving flow my Arkansas relatives obtained all the water supply they needed to maintain their daily activities.
What John described in the fourth chapter of John was not an artesian well, but rather a hand-dug well. In fact, it was historically famous, having been dug centuries earlier by the Hebrew patriarch Jacob. And through the years Jabob’s well faithfully supplied water for the region; particularly now for Sychar, a little Samaritan village that was close by the well.
The story’s focus in the fourth chapter of John centers around that well. 
Scripture says that Jesus, after a journey, had set there to rest. He was alone, having sent His disciples into town to buy lunch. It was then that a woman, the Woman of Samaria, had come to draw water.
At this ancient well, about noon, a conversation begins; a conversation just between the two of them: the woman of Samaria, an outcast of the village and Jesus, the sinless Son of God. One cannot imagine a more profound difference between two people, but perhaps that is the very reason Jesus is here, at this place to visit with this very woman and this very particular time.
The subject of the conversation begins with water. After all, they are at a water well, and it is the water in that well that comes immediately to her mind when Jesus asks for a drink. But Jesus has a different source in mind when He promises water that will forever and eternally satisfy her thirst: “If you knew . . . who it is who ways to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water” (John 4:10).
Water in the Bible is symbolic of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was not talking about ordinary water, like that which could be drawn from Jacob’s Well. Rather, He was speaking about a living well of water drawn from the very heart of Almighty God.
Ordinary water may satisfy for the moment, but the living water of God fills up our souls from the continuous flow that never ends. Like an artesian well, God’s abundant flow of abundant and abiding life will satisfy our needs now and forever throughout all eternity.
That “Living water” satisfied the deep needs of the Samaritan Woman and eventually because of her testimony every soul in the village of Sychar as well. And it will satisfy your needs, too.
Jesus said, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink” (John 7:37).
Are you thirsty? Come to Jesus and He will give you “Living Water”
