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Show GIVE ME THIS WATER saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw." (John 4: 15) "The woman "Water-boy, water-boy, Bring de water roun'; If yo' don't like yo' job Set de bucket down." Timed to the work in rhythm for hand, and setting the it, this ole African American work song grew out of the work and was commonly heard in the community where I grew up. I grew up with the old proverb: "You never dry." One of the tragedies of the holy land today is that many of the sites where Jesus appeared are now underneath some building. Among miss the water till the well runs those is Jacob's well where Jesus met the woman who had five husbands and shacking up. Jesus had been was now walking on way from Judea back to Galilee and had determined that He needed to go through His glad every now and then that determines to go through Samaria. For Samaria. I'm Jesus that's where the least, the last, and the lost often found. That's where I hang are out sometime. glad that Jesus takes time, goes out of His way, takes the long way around, put Himself at I am risk for a wretch like me. day iiwas a woman with not so good a reputation. She was known by the men but shunned by the women. Instead of coming at the usual evening time to draw water she came about midday. Jesus was tired and weary and was sitting alone on the well when the woman That showed up. He did not have even one discriminatory bone in His body and saw the vision, as she was-a vessel thirsty and needing water. He got her woman with unclouded attention but asking that Him. "Give Me she do something for drink." His request blew the woman away. How dare a man, especially a man of another culture, a Jewish man ask a Samaritan a woman for a drink of water. Jesus 2 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." Finally, the woman said to Jesus, "Sir give me this water. We cannot get along without water. For responded, If you knew the about three quarts of the five quarts of blood in our bodies is water. Of every ten pounds of our weight, about seven pounds is not camels and would be hard water. We pushed to are live eight days without water. The ashes a cremated person weighs about nine pounds, seven or about the same as when a of person is born. Water transports nutrients and waste products in to and cells, that's why the kidneys have to work. Our body temperature is controlled by sweat. Along with plenty of rest and sleep, drinking plenty of water is about the best thing you can do for yourself. Like oil in your car, out of the you would not want to drive if your dehydrated. The first thing to body is remember is Yon have to 3 acknowledge your personal Regardless thirst. of what Jesus said to the woman, the woman had to admit that she had come to the well too, thirsty at that. No matter what else you drink, nothing will take the place of water. and Second, You have to believe that Jesus has the water of eternal life. He may not have physical bucket or rope to draw with. The a physical well may be deep. Yet, Jesus has living water sufficient for you and I to live for all eternity. It will quench that thirst so that you will not have to again. That come seems back to the well to say, ever you are saved you saved. once you will keep Third, you have to be willing to drink from the stream that heals. The woman what God gives realized that what Jesus had to offer something was she desired but did not have and did not know until now from where to she understood and realized her get it. Once own need, she willing to drink from that flowing stream. I know sheep are reluctant to drink from flowing was 4 water but you have to settle down and tum yourself over to the Master so that He will lead you beside the still waters. (Psalm 23) Sam Cooke sang what might be his most memorable acapella song with the Soul Stirrers: "J esus gave me water Jesus gave me water Jesus gave me water I want let his praises swell. Jesus gave Jesus gave me water me water Jesus gave me water And it There came was not in the well. was a woman from Samaria who to the well to There she met tell. She get some water a stranger who did her story dropped her pitcher. made richer She drinking was From the water He gave her and it was not from the well." 5 |
