He had fallen
in his tracks in a burning desert and was so nearly
dead that he showed no sign of life. Gently he was
lifted up, and then he moaned, "A drink of
water, and I'm your slave for life!" It may be
that you're just as desperate with spiritual thirst,
but you don't know the cure. Oh come to Christ and
enjoy the cure as did the woman of Samaria.
Mark her
thirst. Our Lord, tired from His journey, sat down by
the well. "About the sixth hour," says the
Bible, "there cometh a woman of Samaria to draw
water." Why did she come about that hour? That
was her hour to be saved, just as this may be your
hour to be saved. "But," you may say,
"I didn't tune in to this broadcast seeking the
Savior." No, neither did that woman go to the
well seeking the Savior. She had an earthly purpose
for going to the well, and you may have had an
earthly purpose for listening to this broadcast. But
you're not listening by chance or coincidence. The
Lord knew you'd be there, and just as He waited to
save her, so He's waiting to save you. After asking
for a drink of water, our Lord said, "Everyone
who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. But
whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will
never thirst any more." "What?"
answered the woman in effect, "never thirst? How
thirsty I am. I'm disappointed. Oh give me this
water." Over the cisterns of sin you can write
the words of our Lord, "Everyone who drinks of
this water will be thirsty again." Sin doesn't
satisfy. In the words of the poet, we must confess,
"I tried
the broken cisterns, Lord, but ah! the waters failed.
E'evn as I
stooped to drink they fled, and mocked me as I
wailed.
"The
pleasures lost I sadly mourned, but never wept for
Thee,
Till grace the
sightless eyes received, Thy loveliness to see.
"Now none
but Christ can satisfy, none other name for me.
There's love,
and life, and lasting joy, Lord Jesus, found in
Thee."
Mark her
transgression. Our Lord said, "Go, call your
husband." Are you asking, "Why lay bare the
sin?" It can't be otherwise. Sin must be dealt
with before salvation can be known. It's the hungry
man who values the bread, the sick man who
appreciates the physician, and the guilty man who
wants the pardon. That's why our Lord said, "Go,
call your husband." But He didn't stop there. He
added, "And come back." So come to Him with
your heartache and hopelessness, your transgressions
and troubles. None are too cureless for Him to cure,
nor too sinful for Him to save. Now the woman said,
"I have no husband." He said, "You are
right when you say, 'I have no husband.' You have had
five husbands, but the one you now have is not your
husband. What you said is true." Just as He knew
all about her sins, so He knows all about yours. But
there's no sin too bad to be forgiven. And when
there's confession, there'll be cleansing, so the
woman confessed her sins by saying in effect, "I
see that I'm a sinner and that you know all. I
recognize the voice of God in You."
Mark her
transformation. "Our forefathers," she
said, "worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews
say Jerusalem is the place." "Believe
Me," answered our Lord, "it's not a
question of where, but Whom. You can worship the
Father anywhere, but you must worship Him in spirit
and truth." What's the use of boasting where you
worship, if your worship doesn't meet your need? The
Samaritan woman knew this. Her religion didn't keep
her from being a scarlet sinner. How foolish it is to
argue over religion that doesn't make bad people
good! Yet, she knew she needed more than religion;
she needed the Redeemer. So she said, "Christ is
coming. He'll tell us all things!" She meant,
"I want Christ." And He answered, "I
am He!" No wonder she left her water-pot in her
haste to tell of her new found Savior. In coming to
Christ she found a spring of water that kept bubbling
up within her for eternal life, and she was
transformed from a soiled sinner to a cleansed child
of God. Am I speaking to one who's unhappy and
unsaved? Then come to Christ. He'll cleanse your sin
and quench your thirst!
copyright 2000 Guido Evangelistic
Association
All Scripture verses are
quoted from the New King James Version..
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