A Daily Devotion for Friday, June 19

John 4:7-15

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

This is only the beginning of the story, as we know. Today I am amused by the woman’s question, “Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?” I can imagine Jesus’ smile in response to that question. Jesus is truly greater than any of his ancestors, greater than any who will come after. His word is the Word of God, and Jesus has told us clearly how we are to live. It is only through living with Him that we will experience our thirst being quenched. I am so grateful I have been brought into the family of God through Christ.

Holy Lord, it is difficult to put into words just how grateful I am to know you are active in my life. You show me your love through my family and my friends, my joy in you, the peace you blanket over me when I need it most. Thank-you, Amen

Becky, transforming