EMPTY WELLS

Empty Wells
John 4:5-26

What empty wells are you drinking from?

The woman we know as “the woman at the well” knew what it was like to drink from empty wells! She had tried to satisfy her thirst through her relationships w/men, several marriages, her religion, her daily rituals and routines, only to come up EMPTY! Most women came to the well in the cool of the day. It was a place of sharing and community. This woman came to the well in the heat of the day, when no other women were there. She didn’t want anyone to cast judgment on her for she was living with a man who was not her husband and had been divorced several times. Can you Imagine how worthless, unlovable and well, empty she must have felt? On this particular day she would meet someone who would change her life forever!

One day, a day like any other day, she came to the well carrying her water pot. She was alone with no one to talk or share the latest news with. As she began to draw up the water from the well, she heard a man say, “Give me a drink“. She was astonished at this! After all, he was a man and on top of that a Jew! It was not the custom in that time for a man to speak to a woman that was alone. Now here is a Jewish man asking her, a Samaritan woman, for a drink of water! That man was none other than Jesus Christ, the Messiah! He didn't come to judge her or condemn her. Earlier in the passage we are told that Jesus “must” go through Samaria. He had a divine appointment with a certain Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. Now was her appointed time to receive the gift of salvation, to drink from the Living Water!

She had come to the well for one purpose to draw enough water to get by on for a day or so. She never dreamed that today would be the day God would draw her to himself through His Son Jesus Christ. She came carrying her empty water pot, but once she met Jesus Christ, her life was transformed. Scripture tells us that she left her water pot and ran to tell everyone about her encounter with the Christ. You see, her water pot represented her old life. An empty, thirsty, void of purpose, love, acceptance, security and satisfaction life. After her encounter with the Living Water of Jesus Christ her heart was filled, no longer empty, no longer did she hang her head in shame. She had drunk deep from the well of Life.

How about you? What empty wells are you drinking from? Will you leave your water pot and come and drink deep from the well of LIFE in Christ Jesus?

"But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him shall never thirst;
but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water
springing up to eternal life."