Prompt thought of the week:
The Samaritan woman at the well found out that the water she came for was not really the water she needed so desperately. This woman had looked for love in many places, in many faces, and when finally offered a soul-quenching love by Jesus, she became a powerful messenger of Good News. Just as the water given by God that flowed in the desert for the Israelites offered new life, the desert of our lives can be refreshed if we look for love regularly at the well of living water and offer life-giving water to others.
What a gift to be given like a gift of life! Yet Jesus always is one to give so much in loving ways to others.
This story is a wonderful story of a woman who went to this well and found out that this water was not the water she needed and how she looked for love in so many places, like we all do!
But then she was offered a soul-quenching love by Jesus. What did he give her? The water of life.
Jesus offers the spiritual water for those who believe in him and want to be filled with his holy spirit.
Quite a loving great gift of life to receive and to be cleaned of our sins.
Jesus called himself the living water. And he will never leave us thirsty. For he loves us.
And when quenching that thirst with water – the words of eternal life, which are the message of salvation, the truth of God and his kingdom, always present the most precious gift, -Life!
Everything we have living around us, the people, the animals, the plants, etc, all need the water of life. Be thankful and love all that we have in life!
Bless us all and fill our hearts with loving mercy lord. For love never fails.
And thank God for that.
AB Bois