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SAA Notes
Jesus says some of His most wonderful words to women. Consider verse 24. This says a lot about who God is and who we are. What does it mean for you in your church to worship in spirit and in truth?
SJA Notes
* Lord God Above, please open our hearts to hear Your word today.
“Jacob’s well was there;”
It is no coincidence that John points out that the well was Jacob’s (along with the woman recognising this).
Jacob was the father of the twelve tribes, ISRAEL himself.
And here we have a Samaritan woman, someone bereft of bloodline and birthright in the eyes of the remnant of Israel that God brought back from Babylon.
John continues to want us to see the truth of what it means to be a child of God – As he wrote in the first chapter of this gospel,
“But to all who did receive him [Christ], who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”
Our earthly parentage and lineage, who we are born to – This has NO MERIT for our salvation!
Jesus’ words to the Samaritan woman then are for us, rung down the ages; words of great encouragement to us!
“The water that I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Here is our King, giving us this living water.
Not because of our earthly heritage, but because of GOD. His will. His love for us. The inheritance He has given and laid up in heaven for us.
Hallelujah, what a Saviour!
* Gracious Father God,
Thank You for calling us from darkness into light, wretched sinners though we are.
Thank You for Jesus, who gives us the water of life.
May we drink from it forevermore!
Amen.