What's in the Water?

We NEED water to survive. We all know it. Bottling companies are getting rich on it. People groups in some parts of the World are literally dying without it. So what is my Ish?

I like water. No issue there. But for some reason I've yet to understand, my body just doesn't sense that I need it. I had mastered the art of going on long road trips without even One potty break, due largely to my body not craving water, or any liquids, for that matter. Yet whenever I have had bloodwork drawn, I have always been told I'm dehydrated. Ugh! "Really? Are you sure?" I use to debate that result. Sigh. Now I've come to regard it as my "norm". But IS it? I mean, SHOULD it be normal to be dehydrated and not know it? I function just fine without it, thank you very much. On the outside I do just fine and can accomplish much on mere sips of water. AHHHHH Therein lies the problem. Just because I don't "sense" or "realize" I need water doesn't mean I am not suffering on the inside without it. The truth is - we, you and I, have been created to NEED Water. Here's what I've learned over my life: Water IS Life!

>>> Sure - Twinkies and Cockroaches can survive a nuclear holocaust when all other life forms wouldn't survive that kind of global destruction, but even THEY wouldn't be in existence at all without water in some form.

"I need to be fully hydrated to be Munchin Life! My body And eventually my spirit will perish without it."

There was a woman who went to her ordinary well on an ordinary day to withdraw ordinary water with which she would continue to live her ordinary life. I bet HER bloodwork would have shown that SHE was fully hydrated by any Physician's standards. In fact, from her conversation at the well that day, you could tell she sure didn't think she needed any other type of water than the ordinary stuff she was used to drinking.

Yet ... that woman had an EXTRAordinary surprise Visitor at her ordinary well that afternoon. That EXTRAordinary Visitor looked past her broken life and buckets of ordinary water and introduced her to the EXTRAordinary Water that would Never leave her thirsty again. LIVING WATER! She had been living her ordinary life for SO long on her Own strength, with her own pleasure as the centerpiece, that she hadn't even sensed that she was Spiritually dehydrated and in dire need of water for her soul; Living Water.

Jesus didn't just offer this woman at the well great stories, warm fuzzies or even just help with her bucket that day. Rather, this EXTRAordinary Visitor proved himself as the Living Water that her sponge-dry soul so desperately needed and until that moment - hadn't even realized she wanted.

You know what happened? She asked questions. She got answers. The answers she got didn't just move her along once again on her ordinary path of life. Nope. The answers, the Proof, that LIVING WATER, JESUS, quenched her heart with complete forgiveness and freedom that she could no longer just think of herself. She IMMEDIATELY turned and went to tell others about Jesus, the Living Water. Oh ya... and the peeps she ran and told about Jesus? They were NOT on her BFF List. They judged her because of her past mistakes and treated her like a leper. Yet, as soon as this woman's heart was quenched with the Living Water, her First thought was, "They Need to Know!" - and in THAT moment - She Began to be Munchin Life! She put Feet to that thought and without ANY judgment, pointed others to the Living Water that SHE had experienced. herself.

"Munchin Life involves Living Water that will never make you thirst again."

I Was that Woman at the Well - not realizing how dehydrated I Really was. Gratefully, I have a relationshp with Jesus now. He and I hang out and I can't get enough of learning more about Him. Oh! And yeppers --- the more I'm getting to know Him and His unmeasurable love for me, I'm becoming better at taking care of this physical body, too. I have become more intentional with making sure I am both physically and spiritually hydrated.

>> How about you? Are you thirsty for Living Water? Read the details about this EXTRAordinary encounter below. And if you'd like - reach out to me here on this Blog if you'd sincerely like a Free Bible so you, too, can learn more about this Living Water that won't run dry!

John 4:1-42 Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

1 Jesus[a] knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and making more disciples than John

2 (though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them—his disciples did).

3 So he left Judea and returned to Galilee.

4 He had to go through Samaria on the way.

5 Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime.

7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.”

8 He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.

9 The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans.[b] She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”

10 Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”

11 “But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water?

12 And besides, do you think you’re greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”

13 Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again.

14 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

15 “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.”

16 “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her.

17 “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied.

Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband—

18 for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet.

20 So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim,[c] where our ancestors worshiped?”

21 Jesus replied, “Believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.

22 You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews.

23 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way.

24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming—the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26 Then Jesus told her, “I am the Messiah!”[d]

27 Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked to find him talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask, “What do you want with her?” or “Why are you talking to her?”

28 The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone,

29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?”

30 So the people came streaming from the village to see him.

31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.”

32 But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.”

33 “Did someone bring him food while we were gone?” the disciples asked each other.

34 Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.

35 You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe[e] for harvest.

36 The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike!

37 You know the saying, ‘One plants and another harvests.’ And it’s true.

38 I sent you to harvest where you didn’t plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather the harvest.”

Many Samaritans Believe

39 Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!”

40 When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay in their village. So he stayed for two days,

41 long enough for many more to hear his message and believe.

42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not just because of what you told us, but because we have heard him ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed the Savior of the world.”