How do we deal with the age old problem of emptiness?

Emptiness is a problem which people have experienced throughout the ages. The whole idea of employment is to fill the hole which emptiness creates … but what about the emptiness of the heart. In this passage we find that the thing which can fill this emptiness is not from ourselves but comes from the one who provides us with true worship.

Here Jesus and his followers were passing through Samaria even though Samaritans did not get along with Jews because they had different places of worship. Neither Samaritan nor Jew had realized the emptiness of what they were worshiping until a Samaritan woman, who was also suffering from the emptiness of numerous broken relationships, is asked by Jesus for a drink.

Jesus’ request touches a deep seated need in the woman’s heart … her need for ‘living water’. The woman was looking for physical answers to a spiritual problem. She finds the answer to her emptiness, not in multiple ‘husbands’ or false worship, but in the one, Jesus himself, who has provided eternal life, the forgiveness of sins and fulfillment in the true worship of God.