The Living Water

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; hear me that your soul may live. Isaiah 55:1-3


The living water is God. With him, you will not thirst. Though you have nothing, He bids you to come. For the water and bread of this life is temporary. But the water that comes from God that nourish our spiritual being gushes forth from Jesus' Sacred Heart. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit so we need to take good care of it; in the same way, communion with God by reading His words and having a personal relationship with Him will quench our spiritual thirst.


Have you ever recalled one moment of happiness that lasted you a long time? I believe the answer is no.  For it is fleeting. It never lasts. Here today, gone tomorrow. Like our bodies, our lives. Yet, our spirit will never die. When we pass on from this life to the next, that's the only part of our being that stays. And what happens to it after is the result of a very important choice we have to make while we are on this earth or planet, whatever you might call it. The choices: heaven or hell.


In the Gospel of John, chapter 4, he recorded the longest conversation Jesus ever had with anyone in the New Testament. And with a Samaritan woman. (The Samaritans were a group of people that were openly hostile to the Jews and vice versa. Jews viewed Samaritans as physically and spiritually detestable. They were treated as outcasts. As a result, Samaritans felt strong resentment and anger toward the Jews.)

The Samaritans were descended from the Israelite people who had not been deported when the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom (722/21 BC) and imported other peoples into the region (2 Kings 17:22-41). They continued to worship Yahweh, but also allowed the worship of other gods from the resettled peoples’ homelands.


Alexander the Great allowed the Samaritans to build or renovate a Samaritan temple on Mt. Gerizim. This became a point of contention to the Jews who had returned and rebuilt Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem. Tensions continued to degrade until the temple on Mt. Gerizim was destroyed by the Jews in 128 B.C. (The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, 726-7). Both groups believed that they were worshiping Yahweh, and both believed that they had the right place to worship Yahweh. The woman had met a prophet–someone who knew what had happened in her life, and one she was sure could answer the most pressing theological question of her heart and of the time.


John 4:7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water,. . .Verse 4 says that Jesus “had to [Gk: edei] go through Samaria.” The use of edei (had to) makes it clear that this is a divine appointment. It was not geographically necessary for Jesus to go through Samaria, and Jewish travelers normally traveled around Samaria. Jesus and his disciples entered a Samaritan village, and the disciples went to buy food (v. 8) while Jesus sat by the well because he was tired. A woman from the nearby village of Sychar came for water.

4: 7b and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." 4:8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 4:9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?"4:10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." 4:11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 4:12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?" 4:13 Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 4:14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life." 4:15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

You can imagine what a total shock it was to everybody upon learning that Jesus talked with a Samaritan woman. But Jesus came here to bring salvation to everybody. Not only the Jews. It was offered to them first, but most of them chose not to believe in Jesus as the Messiah, so it was offered to the Gentiles (non-Jews) too. That means you and me.

4:21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 4:22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 4:23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

It did not matter where one worshiped God—it was how God was worshiped. There would no longer be limitations of geography in worshiping God for God is spirit, and he will be worshiped in spirit and truth. We need not feel guilty when we miss church to worship for we can worship Him right where we are; as long as our hearts are pure.

4:25 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us."  4:26 Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to you."

The Samaritan woman was the first person to whom Jesus revealed himself as Messiah in the Gospel of John, and this is the first “I am” statement in the gospel as well.

Why did Jesus reveal himself to this woman and not to Nicodemus? The woman was not expecting a political Messiah. The Samaritans were looking for the ta’eb or “restorer” (Sloyan, 54). The Samaritans were not looking for a political Messiah from the line of David; they were looking for a prophet like Moses who would restore the observance of the law of Moses as it should be (Sloyan, 54). Jesus could reveal himself as Messiah to her without worrying about political misunderstandings that would have arisen in Judah.

There is no other way to the Father or to heaven but only through Jesus. No matter how good we try to be, if we have no Jesus in our hearts, then our goodness is nothing. It is only through Jesus that we can have true JOY in our hearts.

In the same gospel (John 1:17)  he wrote: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 


The Way - Isaiah 35:8 And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.

By this is meant, doubtless, that they and all others were to have access to God only by obeying the instructions, imitating the example, and depending on the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was the leader in the road, the guide to the wandering, the teacher of the ignorant, and the example to all. See John 6:68; "Thou hast the words of eternal life;" 1 Peter 2:21; "For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow His steps;"

The famous Leo F. Buscaglia wrote: “The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live." It is sad that many believes that by following Jesus, everything will be a bed of roses. And when they experience suffering, they let go. We have the tendency to just ask, ask, ask when we pray, but we should be doing praise, praise, praise, especially in times of trials. For the Lord loves it when we bless  and praise His Holy Name.

The Truth - John 1:17 . For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

The source of truth, or he who originates and communicates truth for the salvation of men. Truth is a representation of things as they are. The life, the purity, and the teaching of Jesus Christ was the most complete and perfect representation of the things of the eternal world that has been or can be presented to man. The ceremonies of the Jews were shadows; the life of Jesus was the truth. The opinions of men are fancy, but the doctrines of Jesus were nothing more than a representation of facts as they exist in the government of God. It is implied in this, also, that Jesus was the fountain of all truth; that by his inspiration the prophets spoke, and that by him all truth is communicated to men. 

John 8:32 said: Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. It is very clear that since Jesus is the truth, He shall shet us free.

The Life - John 11:25, Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” John 1:4 -In him was life; and that life was the light of men.

No man cometh to the Father but by me - To come to the Father is to obtain His favor, to have access to His throne by prayer, and finally to enter His kingdom. No man can obtain any of these things except by the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. By coming by Him is meant coming in His name and depending on his merits. We are ignorant, and He alone can guide us. We are sinful, and it is only by His merits that we can be pardoned.We are blind, and He only can enlighten us. God has appointed Him as the Mediator, the propitiation of our sins and has ordained that all blessings shall descend to this world through Him. Hence he has put the world under his control; has given the affairs of men into his hand, and has appointed him to dispense whatever may be necessary for our peace, pardon, and salvation.

I urge all of you to read the book written by the "beloved" Apostle of Jesus, the Book of Love, the Book of John in the New Testament. Start from there and try to read the Bible every opportunity you can, for it is the Book of Life. All the answers to our questions and problems are there. We just need to ask the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit to guide us, so that we can understand what the Father is telling us through His words.

Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light into my path. Psalm 119:105


It is only by knowing God's Word that we can defeat the enemy who doesn't want us to enter the Kingdom but wants as many souls as he can deceive to go with him in the pit of hell.


John 7:38 (KJV) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.