What do you most long for and what if you don’t get it? For many people they thirst for relationships but often they don’t satisfy. The reason for this is that our desire for relationship can only be truly satisfied in the one who made us. We find this in the passage about Jesus’ meeting with a Samaritan woman.

It was no accident that Jesus met the woman at the well. Their conversation starts off with a discussion about the water from the well. Jesus then points the woman to the ‘living water’ the source of which is himself. She then asks about how this can be obtained, not yet realizing that it is her deepest need.

Jesus then turns the conversation to be about her and gently reveals the broken relationships in her life. She had been searching for love but her experiences had resulted in failure. In Jesus, a Jew who would not normally talk to her, however, she found someone who would never fail her.

This leads her to ask a question about the place to worship. The Samaritans and Jews worshiped in different places. Jesus explains that true worship is not about a building but about a relationship with God in and through himself. He satisfies those who are thirsty with the water of life ….. forgiveness and a restored relationship with him forever.