Sand Mountain Sermonette 95
John 4:13-14 ; John 4:1-42
“Hello, Down There!”
“Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.’” John 4:13-14 (Jesus speaking to the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well).
Each time I visited my Mamaw Irises’ little farm home located about ten miles outside my hometown of Albertville, Alabama, I was drawn to an old white-washed-block structure that covered a well just twenty feet or so offer her back porch. I still remember those hot-summer days of taking an old metal dipper out to the well site, removing the heavy flat metal iron covering off the hole, and bending over and listening to the sound of my voice when speaking down into the hole. And then, the best of all was when I would lower the bucket way down into the hole and draw up what is, still today, some of the coldest, purest, and best drinking water I have ever tasted!
That day, at Noon, during the hottest part of the day, a woman held bondage to sin and the unkind remarks of the townsfolk around her, went out when no one else would be around to draw water from Jacob’s Well near the city of Sychar. However, she wasn’t alone for Jesus was already there to meet her and to tell her about the “Living Water” only He could provide.
During the conversation, Jesus removed the iron covering she had placed over her heart that had been fashioned over a period of many years in which she had sought true love with five husbands and was currently living with a man who was not her husband. But she was open to Jesus who lovingly spoke into her loneliness and emptiness of heart, so she could be free to be filled with the living water of salvation that only He could provide.
Have you invited the Holy Spirit to speak into your life through God’s holy and transforming word? Have you spent time with Jesus and invited Him to cleanse your heart of sin so your heart and life would become in you a well of water “springing up to eternal life?” Like the woman at the well, freely offer Jesus the guilt and shame you have been carrying and watch Him transform your thirsty life into His abundantly satisfying life now and forever!
(Read the complete story in John 4:1-42).
Now, Go and Share Jesus’ Living Water with Others!
Pastor Louie