The First time...

John 4:7-30... the text where Jesus talks to the Samaritan woman by the well.

After all of her searching for love and acceptance through relationships with all her husbands, she really felt nothing, nothing of worth.  Until she went to the well for a jar of water and had an encounter with, “Living Water.” You will NEVER feel anything as close as His love.

Have you ever been in this kind of relationship or relationships, looking for approval, acceptance, love?  If you haven’t tasted Jesus, you will still be searching.  So with your eyes and heart opened wide, “Feel alive for the first time.”

The bible tells us in Luke 10:27 to, “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.” Relationships are obviously important to God, and all about love. But as you can see it begins with Him first, 'Love the Lord your God.'  Or look to Matthew 6:33, and, “seek first His kingdom...”  We will really  never taste love lasting and unconditional, or even really love ourselves, until we put God first. New mercy will break the dawn, and you will feel Love, Real Love, for the “First Time.”

In that snippet from, John 4:13-14, Jesus says “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.” No exceptions, Jesus said EVERYONE will be thirsty again, always searching for what satisfies. Are you one who is always searching for what will satisfy you? No amount of money, or success, or what you think is love, can satisfy what Jesus has to offer you. 

This woman went to the well for a jar of water, but instead she got much more, she tasted, “Living Water.”  His Love is healing, and His Majesty is so overwhelming, that she even left the jar of water she went for, and "went back to town [to talk] to the people," about the man, the Messiah called Christ.   She couldn’t wait to go back to town to tell everyone about this Man. (John 4:28).

After all of her searching, TRUE LOVE and forgiveness entered her heart for “The First Time.” Jesus treasures the broken, and gives hope that we can NEVER earn. He offers it freely. This story shows that Jesus offers divine mercy in the “Living Water” of grace, which washes away sins and cleanses, and fills our souls.  In Verse 15 the women accepts Jesus’ offer and says, “Sir, give me this Water so I won’t get thirsty.” She asked, He gave.

Grace and peace to you

Kim