And he must needs pass through Samaria. He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour. A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink (for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions). The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said to her, Every one who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life. The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.
John 4:4-15 DARBY
The origin of this story happens in a well called early start, whole back and in a city called end. The names reflect a human cycle that our conditions of sin and stronghold deceives us in to thinking we can meet our deepest need. Ironically which is water for our daily lives. The woman in this story becomes acquainted with a need so deep and intense she leaves her waterpot in the hottest portion of the day.
Prior to accepting Christ as Lord of my life. My cycle forced me to us natural means to meet a spiritual need. Which never works and simply medicates the symptoms of the true issue. But to understand the depth of the need I believe it is important to note the solution.
The word says Jesus must needs go through Samaria, which represents a filled with compromise and spiritual confusion. However not so confused to precieve Christ.
The thought that an all sufficient being would need anything is troubling. But once the thought is full thought then we can see what's really being said. Needs express the design of the thing that it requires. A corvette needs 89 to run. It however does not need 89 to be a corvette. In the same way the need of Jesus to come to us is not of completion like us. But as in expression of purpose and design.
So it then follows our need reflects a need for deep relationship beyond physical and we'll into the spiritual.
Jesus must needs go, empties me of the concern to chase after the needs of this world and breaks me out of vicious cycle. I can now set my sights on God and all his fullness.
But how do we achieve the fullness the mystery is revealed in the words of Christ. It is the unfolding of the Trinity in the life of the human being.
Jesus said " If you believe on me as the scriptures has said out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water."
Proper belief as informed by the word gives us access to the flow of the water and the well springing up.
What is the water?
Water is the spirit of God and the word revealed to us.
Beginning of the end is properly informed belief about Christ, which will trigger the presence of God in us, growing.
