“STY-M-E-E-E-E! Wheres you at? Right here where I is. Well, come over from where you is to where I is!” That’s what Stymie and his mom sounded like in the original Little Rascals. Sometimes we want to know where someone else is to meet them there, or vice versa.
God wants to meet you where you’re at right now. It doesn’t matter if your hair’s combed, if you’re only wearing one shoe, or if your socks don’t match. It doesn’t matter if your life is picture-perfect, either. On one journey with His disciples, He deemed it necessary to pass through Samaria; a strange request because Samaritans and the Jews didn’t jibe. In His perfect timing, He waited at Jacob’s well for a specific woman in need of His living water.
After asking her for water, He then turned the conversation to His living waters telling her that if she knew who He was, she’d ask Him for His type of water. She told Him to give her of that water so she’d never have to fetch water again. After telling her all He knew about her life, she realized He was the long-awaited Messiah! Leaving behind her waterpot, she dashed off to tell her neighbors about Him (John 4:1-30).
Application: Jesus knew the lady needed water. He knew her life wasn’t straight. She had had five husbands…He knew she was thirsty for truth and a better life. Where’s you at right now? Jesus asks you. Oh, He knows, but He needs you to say, “Jesus, I’m right here where I is.” He’ll tell you to come to His place; meaning, “Call unto me, and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3).
You don’t need to do anything to impress Him since He knows your life story. Thirsting for righteousness? Invite Him into your heart. Like the Samaritan woman in this story tell Him, “Sir, give me this water…” “But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14).
Receive Living Waters NOW and you too will leave behind your waterpot. People spend their lifetime drinking from broken fountains in efforts to quench their thirsts for salvation, yet always end up dry because only the Giver of Life can satisfy our thirst.
“For My people have committed two sins: they have forsaken Me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water” (Jeremiah 2:13 NIV).
Quench your thirst NOW and FOREVER through JESUS!
*Interesting note: there will not be one ounce of water, not even perspiration in hell (Luke 16:24).
Drink It Up!
Sam