You see, this woman at the well had been married five times and was now living with a sixth man, but wasn’t married to him. In other words, she was going from man to man, from one relationship to another, seemingly never satisfied with any man, always having to go to another.
It’s like she was continually “thirsty”, never satisfied, always needing to come back for more.
Please read John 4:13-14 again:
John 4:13-14 NIV Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, (14) but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Question 4. What is the contrast between verses 13 and 14? In other words, what is the contrast between “this water” (in the well) and the water Jesus can give?
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In tomorrow’s lesson, we are going to begin applying this passage to our own lives, to media addiction and how to be free from it.
For now, I think we can acknowledge that drinking “this water”, the water in the well would leave the woman thirsty, where she would have to come back every day and get more water. Obviously, physical water doesn’t have the ability to quench thirst forever, we have to drink it every day. Whoever drinks physical water will thirst again.
Obviously, it’s not wrong to drink water; indeed, we drink water every day. We need water to survive. Jesus wasn’t telling this woman she was doing anything wrong by coming to get water every day, it’s just that obviously physical water doesn’t satisfy us forever. Water just satisfies us temporarily and then we have to come back and drink more of it, right?
I think we can also see that Jesus has “water”, living water, that He promised would quench her thirst and satisfy her eternally. And hopefully, you can see that Jesus’ offer and promise to this woman at the well applies to you, too.
Question 5. Beginning tomorrow we are going to start looking at this story in-depth and begin to apply it to our own lives and our involvement with media addiction. But for now, can you think of ways this story might apply to your own life? Please share your thoughts here:
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