The story is told of a coffee shop that once advertised this special offer: “Buy one of our coffee mugs for $4.49 and fill up your cup for a dime each time you visit.” However, the owners never expected that 25 years later, four longtime customers would still be getting their cup of java every day for 10 cents!
Today, we won’t find many offers like the above offer, but Jesus offered something far greater to the woman at the well in John 4:10.
He told her:
“Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but …. the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:13-14).
This woman was eager to listen because none of her many personal relationships had ever filled up her emptiness (John 4:16-18). Then Jesus offered her “water” that would soothe her impoverished life and give her something far better than temporary refreshment — the promise of eternal life.
That same promise is ours as well (1 John 2:23-25). God’s grace and other spiritual benefits come from a bottomless reservoir (John 7:38-39; 2 Peter 1:1-4; cf. 2 Corinthians 6:16-18; 2 Corinthians 7:1).
Dear reader, let’s drink from the water He offers, and we’ll never thirst again!
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
He told her:
“Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but …. the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:13-14).
This woman was eager to listen because none of her many personal relationships had ever filled up her emptiness (John 4:16-18). Then Jesus offered her “water” that would soothe her impoverished life and give her something far better than temporary refreshment — the promise of eternal life.
That same promise is ours as well (1 John 2:23-25). God’s grace and other spiritual benefits come from a bottomless reservoir (John 7:38-39; 2 Peter 1:1-4; cf. 2 Corinthians 6:16-18; 2 Corinthians 7:1).
Dear reader, let’s drink from the water He offers, and we’ll never thirst again!
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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