18 If You Only Knew . . .

John 4:1-42, TBC Book Two, Chapter 18
On the way to Galilee, Jesus traveled through Samaria, and he did something that surprised everyone. By noon he was hot and tired, so he rested near a well and sent his disciples for food. When a Samaritan woman came, Jesus said to her, “May I have a drink?” The woman was shocked.

“You are a Jew, and you’re asking me for a drink?” The Jews never spoke to Samaritans. They resented these Gentile-Jews, who had built their own temple in Samaria.

Jesus continued, “If you knew the gift of God and who I was, you would be asking me for a drink, and you would have living water.”

“Sir, you have nothing to draw out water. So where will you get this ‘living water’? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us this well?”

Jesus answered, “Whoever drinks the water I give will never thirst, for it will become a spring of eternal life.”

“Then give me some,” she said, “so I won’t have to keep coming here.”

“Go get your husband,” Jesus said, “then come back.”

“I have no husband,” she replied.

“You are quite right,” Jesus said. “You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband.” The woman looked shocked. . . .

(See THE BIBLE CLICKS, Book Two, Chapter 18 , for the rest of the story.)​

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Today’s Takeaways
     A proverb to guide you: Beyond race, religion, gender, guilt . . . Friendship with Jesus, God’s gift to every thirsty soul.
     A promise to cling to: “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. . . . There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:26, 28-29                NIV
     A praise to fill you: Truth Be Told  Matthew West     [Can skip ad after first 5 seconds]

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