Musing on well water. God really does care.
The woman at the well.
I’ve always heard she went out in the middle of the day because she didn’t want to be seen by the other women. She who had been married five times.
But I don’t think she really cared. Sometimes you get so used to being on the outside that you put up a shield the likes of the hull of the USS Indiana, a few looks and murmurs from other busybodies isn’t going to bother you.
So she had to be thirsty as Matheson claims. She went to the well at mid-day because she had thirst.
Reading her conversation with Jesus, I think she did have a bit of an attitude.
“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?.. “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the water is deep?”
She was used by men, shunned by women and now here comes a Jew asking me to draw him water?
But she was smart. Smart enough to know that she had made a mess of her life. And mad at the way things had turned out. Not that she would let anyone see. But he knew. He knew everything about her.
It was her intellect Jesus appealed. “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.” John 4:13.
Never be thirsty again. That proved irresistible to her.
What is it to you?
And I learned that after 5 p.m. I started switching my no complaining band — alot.
That is the best! I believe most of us avoid the “big” sins – murder, rape, law degrees. But it is the busyness of our every day lives that leaves us far from God. Can’t tell you how many times I have been driving toward Atlanta feeling frustrated about something. Then I remember – I haven’t been with God today. When I begin to pray or put on some praise music my frustration melts away.