Today's Verse - John 4:14 (NIV):
......whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
Jesus spoke these words when he encountered the woman from Samaria at the well, when He asked her for a drink of water. Her response was that she wanted this water so that she would no longer be thirsty and have to draw water from that well.
Today's Comments: In this story, Jesus eventually reveals that He was the Messiah for which the Jews were waiting. In John's Gospel, Jesus also spoke about himself as being the "bread of life." If one thinks about it, human beings need two things to sustain them physically-- food and water. Without food, people die of starvation. Without water, people die of dehydration. In Biblical times, bread was the food upon which all life was centered. These passages about bread and water suggest to us that, like we need food to physically sustain us as human beings, spiritually, we need Jesus to sustain us. The difference, however, is that physically, that sustenance is temporal and finite, while our sustenance in Jesus Christ is both spiritual and eternal.
......whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
Jesus spoke these words when he encountered the woman from Samaria at the well, when He asked her for a drink of water. Her response was that she wanted this water so that she would no longer be thirsty and have to draw water from that well.
Today's Comments: In this story, Jesus eventually reveals that He was the Messiah for which the Jews were waiting. In John's Gospel, Jesus also spoke about himself as being the "bread of life." If one thinks about it, human beings need two things to sustain them physically-- food and water. Without food, people die of starvation. Without water, people die of dehydration. In Biblical times, bread was the food upon which all life was centered. These passages about bread and water suggest to us that, like we need food to physically sustain us as human beings, spiritually, we need Jesus to sustain us. The difference, however, is that physically, that sustenance is temporal and finite, while our sustenance in Jesus Christ is both spiritual and eternal.
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