How Thirsty are You?

We are going to look at the actions and lives of some of the people in the Bible that found the favor of God upon their lives.   First we are going to look at the woman at the well.  

What we see in this woman was that Jesus knew that she was a person that was thirsty.  Thirsty for more, thirsty for the truth.  Thirsty for life.  Thirsty for hope...She was thirsty.   No matter what our living condition, or the amount of sin we have committed or the poverty or reputation that we have in this life God is drawn to those who are thirsty.  

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

What was her hunger going to do for her?  It was going to make her receptive of the message and the gift that God has to offer.   Just because we are unsatisfied does not mean we are thirsty.   

A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah

4 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.

First of all this woman was a Samaritan.  Just like today where some people are more popular or honored because of where they are born or what family they belong to it was that way in the days of Jesus.   A woman from Samaria would make her from a despised unimportant country.  You see when a heart is hungry for God, God will be drawn to that person no matter what their race, or their birth place because what does God see?  He sees that hunger and thirst that is on the inside and this draws God to us.    The Bible says he needed to go through Samaria, but as far as what was recorded this woman was the only person in Samaria that Jesus interacted with.  He went all that way because here was this woman and she had a thirst, the kind that only God could fill.  

9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

We see that this woman knew the rules of relationships, and she knew that her status was beneath theirs in life, this is what caused her to be so surprised when Jesus spoke to her that day.   When he was willing to drink water from her cup that was His way of saying, "I do not see you as beneath or below me, I will drink water from the same cup you drink from."   Think about seeing a stranger on the road.  Would you be willing to drink water from the same cup that they drink?   Would you be willing to drink after someone that you knew was not clean, and yet Jesus knew all about this woman and he was willing to share her cup.   Jesus did not lower himself to her position, but he elevated her status to His status.  When we are thirsty we not only draw God to us, but he will lift us up to his position...

And not only this but Jesus addressed her inner needs.  We are living in a generation with great inner needs.  Pains, hurts, disappointments and broken promises and dreams.   Jesus did walk all the way to Samaria just to get a cold drink of water.  He came because there was a thirsty woman, who had a great inner need, and he did not over look that need.   Her hunger and thirst for the things of God drew Jesus into Samaria.

Are you ready to hunger and thirst for God?   This woman had been with several men going from relationship to relationship.  She found nothing in any of these relationships to satisfy that hunger and thirst she had within, the need to be loved and cherished, the need to be held and honored, the things she could only find through the inner working of the Spirit of God inside.    When we go from relationship to relationship only to be disappointed again and again Jesus is letting us know what it is that we need.

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

The Spirit of God dwelling inside of you is that Spring of Living Water and it is the only thing that can satisfy that dry thirst within.  It is the only thing that can heal the pain and make your life whole.   Ask God to fill you with His Spirit everyday, do not delay, let God have His way.