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He left Judea, and returned to Galilee. He had to go through Samaria on the way. Eventually He came to a Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily by the well about noontime. Soon, a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.”—John 4:6-7
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The morning this Samaritan woman wakes up is like any other day. She dresses and delves into the duties of the day. At noon, she readies herself to go to the well outside the city. No one will be there. The sun is blistering hot mid-day. She will have the well all to herself. There is another well in town, but then she would have to face the villagers and what they think of her. Little does she know how different this day will turn out.
Meanwhile, on a dusty and dry road, traveling in the scorching and sweltering sun, Jesus and the disciples are approaching Samaria, enemy territory for the Jews. At the time, Jews prefer to take the indirect and inconvenient route around the eastern side of the Jordan River to avoid Samaria. But Jesus takes the most direct route possible from Judea to Galilee through Samaria, meandering into a place called Sychar. Little-known town, and mentioned only once in the Bible, at a well in the middle of nowhere.
Jesus arrives at this cistern weary, but ready. Jesus sits down. He waits for the woman to come.
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The well of your need is waiting to be filled with something holy.
The Samaritan woman has a past. It involves multiple men. Her body, the temple of God, created by God, after the beauty of God, is being used in ways that doesn’t honor God or her soul. Our mistakes may look different from hers. But in our past, there are borne hurt spaces seeped in steep places. We can hide this from other people and avoid the morning crowds like she does. We can isolate ourselves to shut out the world’s opinion.
But the hurt remains, and the sin perpetuating it builds walls that keep us in bondage to embracing the wrong identity. Over time, this woman comes to accept her identify as a moral outcast. She learns to function in the role of an outcast, lives like an outcast, and loves like an outcast. She’s open her life to men in the past who do not honor her body, and she continues on this path.
None of those relationships in the past or present satisfy what she needs. This Samaritan woman has deep needs and she’s filling the well of her soul with the wrong contents.
She can keep feeding her soul like this. Or something better. Jesus comes to offer her better. The well of our need longs to be filled with holiness from a source engulfed in godliness, God Himself. The living water that Jesus offers is just that. A bubbling spring bursting forth eternal life to all who drink it, satisfying a thirst to be made complete in Christ. Every. Single. Day.
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The well of your need is waiting to be made whole.
The Samaritan woman has given pieces of her heart to a myriad of men. None of whom cared or committed to her the way her heart yearned for. At the well, Jesus reads her heart. He heals her heart. He takes back the broken pieces that she has given away, and revives her whole. He is truly, the Living Water that quenches the broken spaces in broken places in our lives.
Jesus, the Messiah of the world, is waiting by the well for her.
Jesus is also waiting by the well for you. What He restores for her, He can do for you and I.
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This well was built a long time ago, a gift given to Joseph from his patriarchal father, Jacob. It has been used for simple reasons to provide water. But this cistern has also been situated here, for hundreds of years, awaiting the Samaritan woman’s arrival at just the right moment to meet the solution to her soul and the eternal answer to her deepest longings.
Come to the well, Beloved.
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