Which well are you drawing from?

John 4 gives us the account of Jesus interacting with a Samaritan woman. There are several points to gleem from this interaction, but I want to highlight one in specific today.

Jesus was passing through a town in Samaria, called Sychar and sat down by Jacob's well. A Samaritan woman came to draw water and as she approached the well, Jesus asked her to draw some water for him. Jesus initiated the conversation with this woman; Jesus refused to stay in the "religious rules" of that culture (Jews had nothing to do with Samaritans & more than that~ he was a man & she was a woman). Jesus was discerning her "thirst" level. He wasn't interested in a casual conversation, he was after something different~ deeper. Jesus always go after the heart. This woman addresses the fact that he is a Jew and she is a Samaritan woman and asks how he could ask her for a drink. Jesus responds, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman is "stuck" in the natural and notices that he has nothing to draw with, so how could he give her water...but still he goes deeper. "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman says YES I want this water. And so Jesus goes deeper still and tells her to bring her husband to the well. Jesus is going behind the veil she's hiding behind. He knows why she is thirsty. The woman responds honestly by telling Jesus that she doesn't have a husband and Jesus finishes her life story. There is continued conversation and the woman can no longer hide behind the veil. She wants this Living Water. She believes that Jesus is the Messiah. And, she leaves her water jar to go back to the village to tell all that Jesus is in their village! The Living Water that had filled her spilled out of her and revival came to Sychar!

The woman came to Jacob's Well with a water jar~ to drink from the natural well; to quench her thirst. But, at the Well she met Jesus and after the encounter she had with the Living Water, she left her water jar (the natural water wasn't so important at that moment) and drank deep from the Supernatural Well. (Sidenote: The name Jacob's Well means "supernatural replacing the natural", so what a place for this encounter to occur.)

So, what well are you drawing from? When we draw from the natural well, we get our "needs" met, but there is an emptiness and we get dry rather quickly. BUT, when we draw from the well of the Supernatural (the Holy Spirit) we are filled to overflowing in such a way that the Living Water spills out. In drawing from the Supernatural Well, we have encounters with Jesus that transform us and even those in our circle of influence. There is a "spilling" effect; the spring of Living Water cannot be contained. Joy, love, faith, peace, humility, gentleness, kindness, renewed mind, forgiveness, selflessness, thankfulness, mercy, tenderness~ it all spills out. So DRINK DEEP OF THE WELL OF THE SUPERNATURAL and watch REVIVAL COME TO YOUR TOWN.