# 68 Those Difficult Trips To the Well

# 68 Those Difficult Trips To the Well

Joh 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. (noon)  7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." 11 The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 "Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?" 13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 "but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." 15 The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw." 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." 17 The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said, 'I have no husband,' 18 "for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly."

Coming to the well of Jacob at noon is a little odd. Most people drew water from the well at sunset, but this woman comes here during the heat of the day, at a time when she is not likely to bump into anyone. Can’t blame her. Coming at noon helps her to avoid the whispering attacks on her lifestyle. Wouldn’t it be great if she could just avoid the well completely?

If she had this “living water” that this Jew was talking about, she would never again be thirsty, and she would never again have to expose herself to public shame. She would never again have to come to the well of Jacob!

Coming to the well at noon was a constant reminder to this woman of the sin in her life. If Jesus would just give her this living water, she wouldn’t have to do this anymore.

But Jesus has a surprise for her and us as well. As He responds to the woman with a command! He says, “Go call your husband and come here.” He cut right to the quick. His charge to the Samaritan woman to bring her husband was nothing but a call to repentance. Repentance and living water go hand in hand. They are constant companions and necessary gifts from God. Jesus said in  Joh 16:8 that when the Holy Spirit comes He convicts people of their sin! "And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned, ” and the surest proof that God is at work in a person’s life is when they say that and mean it!

Living Water, (the Holy Spirit,) brings forth repentance from the sin-polluted well of our hearts. It gets it out in the open where it can be dealt with through the blood of Jesus. Know this, when you ask God for the gift of Living Water, He will also bring along the gift of conviction and repentance.

If you have ever driven a point to strike a well, you will see the similarity here. A pipe with a sharp point is driven to a place where water is likely to be found. When it hits the water table, the water springs forth through the pipe. Conviction and repentance are like that point. God knows right where to drive it, and when it hits home, conviction of sin, pierces the heart, and brings forth godly sorrow over our sins, and it results in a gushing forth of forgiveness that springs forth to everlasting life.

Living Water brings repentance, and repentance brings confession, and confession brings forgiveness, and the clean slate of forgiveness removes guilt and shame and those difficult noon time trips to the well.