Daily Devotions

John 4:1-10 4 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

Jesus saves! The hated, the hopeless and this morning the indifferent. The woman at the will was living her life on her terms with little or no thought for eternity or a judgment to come. She was floating through her life, spinning her wheels if you would, and a judgment day was fast approaching. When Jesus offered her living water he got her attention. (John 4:11-15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.) Jesus then pointed out her sin and need of salvation. Jesus will often use the circumstances of life to get the attention of the lost, of the indifferent. People wonder why God allows tragedy in a life, allows sickness and disease, what would a God of love allow those things? Because it is often those things that get the attention of the indifferent and point them to Jesus Christ. We would all like life to be free of trials but as we look back at our lives we can see how those trials turned us to the Lord, got our attention. Jesus will save even the indifferent.

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