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Meditations of The Gospel of John: Chapter 4

 


The first account of this passage is Jesus' encounter with The Samaritan woman. She arrives at the Well to retrieve water. Jesus uses this moment as an opportunity to reveal His identity as well as illustrate a crucial spiritual truth. He explains to the woman that if anyone drinks of this water, he will thirst again, but the water He (Jesus) gives will bring eternal life and the person will never thirst again. The Samaritan woman mentions that the Well was given to her people by Jacob. With this in mind, Jesus was making an illustration of the two Covenants: if anyone drinks from Jacob's Well (the Old Covenant) he will remain thirsty. But if anyone drinks the Living Water Jesus offers (the New Covenant), he will never thirst again. Under the Old Covenant,  there is Law and condemnation. God's Presence is temporarily given in the tabernacle and the only way to be declared clean enough to enter His Holy Presence is through the blood of animals. Gentiles were only allowed to pray on the outer court of the Temple. Under the New Covenant, there is a radical change of dynamics. The veil to the Holy of Holies was ripped in two, allowing access into God's Presence through Christ's Blood. The Holy Spirit now dwells in Believers. We are under grace instead of the Law. Being an ethnic Jew or Gentile no longer has relevance. This is what Jesus was inviting The Samaritan woman to! He was inviting her to Salvation! This is the Living Water because it satisfies all the requirements of the soul. He even tells her that physical locations of worship will no longer matter.

God is Spirit (not limited by human faculties, eternal) and He will be worshipped in Spirit (not according to a physical image, loved and adored from the heart. Led by the Holy Spirit) and truth (according to How He has revealed Himself in His Word). 


 In a shorter passage, a nobleman's son is sick to the point of death. Jesus declares that the son will live. The nobleman believes Jesus and his son is healed. I see the power of Christ and I see tremendous faith. God will act on our faith. Without faith, we cannot please God. Faith itself is also a gift from God. It is essential to my walk with The Lord.  

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