Marked Devotional 20

JOHN 4:7-14 | ⁷ A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” ⁸ (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ¹² Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” ¹³ Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”

In Jesus’ remarkable encounter with the woman at the well, we learn something wonderful: God has an unlimited supply of spiritual sustenance for us. All our bodily desires have an unending pattern: in response to a hunger we seek a temporary satisfaction that soon yields to a new hunger. We thirst, our thirst is met, soon we thirst again. We hunger, we eat and find satisfaction, and soon after we experience hunger once more. But Jesus tells his new Samaritan friend, that the overflowing, unending life force of God can continually reside in her, meeting her needs for joy, understanding, and love. Our souls can find perpetual wholeness in connection to God.

Memorize this verse: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness—for they shall be satisfied.”

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