Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

Jesus traveled through Samaria where he came upon a well alone, while his disciples were in town buying food.  When a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well, Jesus asked her for a drink.  She said no, because Jews and Samaritans don't associate with each other.

Jesus explains to her that although the water he asks for will not quench His thirst forever.  He will be thirsty again.  All that drink the water will be thirsty again.  And yet she says no.

He goes on to explain that: even though she says no, that God, if asked, would say yes to His "living" water that gives everlasting life.  God, if asked, gives everlasting life, and yet she won't share her water which is nothing but normal everyday well water.

He explains to her that a time is coming where people will worship the Lord everywhere.  Not just on the mountaintop, or in Jerusalem, but everywhere.  He tells her that God's worshipers must worship in SPIRIT and TRUTH.

She says, "I know that the Messiah is coming.  When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

To which Jesus replies, "I who speak to you am he."

She is telling him that she will receive answers from the Messiah when he returns and he is telling her: "You just did."

Sometimes we just have to open our ears and listen to God's word.  Stop trying to figure everything out for ourselves.  It's not all up to us.  Just do God's work and all will be revealed.


Jesus continues in this chapter and his disciples return and tell Him to eat.  He says that he has food to eat that they know nothing about.

Jesus sees that they don't understand and says to them that: "My food, is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work."

He asks them how they wait for a harvest.  They wait months at a time for the harvest.  He says: "Open your eyes and look at the fields!  They are ripe for harvest."

"Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so the the sower and the reaper may be glad together."

"I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.  Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."

You've already won.  The work has already been done for you and you have God on your side.  We are standing on the shoulders of giants.

Go reap the benefits.