John 4:15

The woman pleads, “Lord, I want some of that water!  Please let me have some so I don’t have to come here again to draw water that can’t quench my thirst forever.” John 4:15 EFP

“I want some of that, Jesus!” says the woman.  Why wouldn’t she?  It sounds like the solution to her daily mid-day drudgery.  It doesn’t matter at that moment if it truly sounds too good to be true.  If there is any chance that it is indeed true, she wants to take advantage of the offer.  “If it means I don’t have to come every day to draw more from this well, then please give me some water from of your private reserve.”

She still doesn’t really know what he is talking about.  She still does not have any idea how he is going to go about getting this living water.  But she is so beat up by life, so crushed by the unsavory judgments; she is desperate enough to grasp at anything that might offer her an escape from the backside of life.  So she pleads.  “Please, Jesus!”

Is the woman playing along?  Is she seriously asking Jesus to give her living water that will literally quench her physical thirst forever?  Is she beginning to show Jesus the side of her she has let no one else see?  I believe she is so fraught that she is willing to take a chance on this eccentric stranger who speaks of things too good to be true.  I’m sure I have at times passed on the offer because it just sounds too good to be true.  Can it be that my ability to long, to crave, and to desire for the intangible only takes place when I have recognized the effervescent nature of the tangible things in my life?  I will never desire the living water while I am still drinking repeatedly from the fountain of water that eventually and inevitably leads to death.