The woman said to Him,
"Sir, You have nothing to draw [water] with, and the well is deep."
—John 4:11
“Have you ever said to
yourself, “I am impressed with the wonderful truths of God’s Word, but He can’t
really expect me to live up to that and work all those details into my life!”
When it comes to confronting Jesus Christ on the basis of His qualities and abilities,
our attitudes reflect religious superiority. We think His ideals are lofty and
they impress us, but we believe He is not in touch with reality— that what He
says cannot actually be done. Each of us thinks this about Jesus in one area of
our life or another. These doubts or misgivings about Jesus begin as we
consider questions that divert our focus away from God. While we talk of our
dealings with Him, others ask us, “Where are you going to get enough money to
live? How will you live and who will take care of you?” Or our misgivings begin
within ourselves when we tell Jesus that our circumstances are just a little
too difficult for Him. We say, “It’s easy to say, ‘Trust in the Lord,’ but a
person has to live; and besides, Jesus has nothing with which to draw water— no
means to be able to give us these things.” […] But we do have misgivings about
Jesus. […] My misgivings arise from the fact that I search within to find how
He will do what He says. My doubts spring from the depths of my own
inferiority. If I detect these misgivings in myself, I should bring them into
the light and confess them openly” CHAMBERS
Do you find that it is easy
to believe that Jesus can do something, but much harder to believe He “will” do
something…. At least for you? You find
yourself in the middle of life’s circumstances.
Perhaps it is from your own making .. your own sin .. perhaps not … but
the situation is impossible. The woman
at the well got water every day from that well.
She knew what it took to draw water there. She also knew that Jesus did not have what He
needed to draw the water from the well.
I am sure she was thinking “Seriously? This guy does not have a clue!” But she was looking at the situation through
her eyes and not His. She saw the impossibility
of the situation. She had already
predicted failure. There was not any
point … but Jesus was not bound by what she saw .. by the limitations that she
resolved herself to … (John 4:10, 12-15)
“Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you
for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living
water.” … “Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and
drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered,
“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the
water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become
in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him,
“Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming
here to draw water.”
Was Jesus greater than
Jacob? What a question! Do you look at your circumstances in terms of
what men can do and think, “It’s not possible”?
Jesus told her what He had to give would last forever. She was still stuck in the three dimensions
of this world and asked for water that would allow her to not have to come to the well
every day. She wanted a physical
solution. Jesus said that answer you are
looking for was in Him. Then He went on
to tell her why she came to the well when no one else from the village was
there … shame and rejection … That He could fix the source of her trouble. We struggle with the same thing. Where are you looking for solutions? Are you interested in the solution that Jesus
is offering? Or are you rejecting that
as an impossibility or worse yet as unacceptable. You
want Jesus to prove Himself by fixing the relationship. By solving
the financial troubles. By curing the
illness. Not by "just" being the God of all comfort,
your strength, your peace …. That is nice but you want more … Jesus is the more
that you are looking for, you just need to open your eyes and turn your heart
toward Him. ELGIN
Charley Elgin
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