In this section of the 4th chapter of John, we see Jesus as he encounters a woman at a well in Samaria and offers her living water. She then leaves and tells the townspeople that he may be Christ and the disciples rejoin Jesus.
In the first 14 verses we are shown Jesus as he goes through Samaria at the sixth hour. He talks to a women at a well and offers her living water that would bring eternal life.
From these verses, the word reveals to us that personally knowing Christ, the gift of God, brings true salvation through his living water.
God wants us to carefully consider these words and apply them to our own lives. What do you do with the living water that has been given you? How does that spring well up in you to affect others you know who are in a spiritual draught?
In verses 15 through 26, Jesus has a conversation with the women that draws out the truth about her life and the choices she has made. He rebukes the women at the well for her unconfessed sins and states that the time to worship God and Jesus as the Messiah is now.
From these verses we learn that true Christians worship God in spirit and in truth.
What do you need to change so that you worship God in spirit and in truth?
In the last 4 verses of this section the disciples are surprised when they come upon Jesus at the well with this woman. As the disciples rejoin Jesus, the woman tells the townspeople that Jesus may be the Christ.
The actions of the woman reveal traits that God would like to see in each one of us. True obedience to Christ involves telling others about Him and bringing others nearer to Him.
In what parts of your life do you need to draw nearer to Christ? In what ways could you better draw others nearer to Him?
For further reading complete your study of John 4
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