Worship Revelation from Jesus | July 11, 2023

First published Tuesday, September 22, 2020

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:7-14)

Jesus asked the woman for a drink of water, and she pointed out the barriers between them. In John 4:9b, she says, “How can you ask me for a drink (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)” Jesus then made comparisons between natural water and “living water.” If she consumes the “living water”, she will never thirst again and it “will become in them a spring of water welling up to life” (John 4:14). When Jesus turned his attention to the status of her heart, looking beyond who she was to what she needed, she was moved and began to ask spiritual questions. He then went directly to her biggest problem-- her husband, or lack of one. He would point to the things she had done in her past to fill the void that only He could fill. This was a revelation.

This may be a time in your life to assess life and determine what has stood between you and Jesus. What have you used to fill your life? Is it working? What has God been trying to reveal to you?

Prayer: Lord, I know that you created me to worship. If I don’t worship you, I will worship something or someone. These things that I have worshipped in the past have been inadequate. You, alone, can fulfill my deepest spiritual need. Lord, take my heart and rid it of all of my substitutes. I need you. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.