The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water John 4:15
I can only think how often I thought I understood a scripture, only to be shown later I was totally off base! The main reason for this ignorance was that I was applying what I knew to what God was sharing. Often, I also wanted it to mean one thing, possibly because it would exonerate me or lessen the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I think of Nicodemus in the previous chapter and the Samaritan women here. When human understanding understanding is applied to Godly elements, we often miss the greater meaning.

Charles Spurgeon shares about this passage, "At first the woman raised questions: the skeptical part of her nature took its turn and quibbled, and carped, and argued. "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep," and so on. Do you not see all the elements of the infidel in her? But she is in good hands, and soon she has passed from the period of questioning into that of petitioning, and she cries this time, "Sir, give me this water." She was still, I am afraid, very ignorant. She did not even understand her own petition. That is clear from the words which follow the text, "That I thirst not, neither come here to draw."
She was giving a material meaning to a spiritual utterance. She was thinking of the water that could moisten her lips, when Christ was speaking of that Living Water, His own Grace and love which touches the heart, and the heart only.

Thankfully, she had an open heart and the best teacher so she could understand the gift she was being offered! Join me in reading John 4 and be encouraged!

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