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March 25 - John 4 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Tuesday, it's the 25th of
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  March and I'm delighted to have your company.
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  Thanks for tapping on play, inviting me in.
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  You might be all on your lonesome saying come on Sean,
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  let's read together. Oh, there might be a few of you,
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  might be a family gathered around a table or tucked into a
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  bed. However you roll at your place,
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  wherever you are. Great to have your company as we
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  continue to be a family on the wall.
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  No, that's not even true. We continue to be a disciple
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  with our Lord speaking to us and walking with us and just getting
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  to be a part of those amazing moments when Jesus ministry was
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  being lived out. And today's reading is no
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  different. This is this wonderful discourse
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  that he has with the Samaritan woman by the well.
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  And this is one of those conversations that will just
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  stay with you all day. Well, that's my hope and that
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  you will just reflect on how Jesus is and his gentleness and
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  the way he go about convicting people of his truth.
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  Ah, how wonderful. Let's read it together, shall
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  we? Reading together, John chapter
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  4. Jesus knew the Pharisees had
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  heard that he was baptising and making more disciples than John.
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  So Jesus himself didn't baptise them, His disciples did.
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  So he left you, dear, and returned to Galilee.
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  He had to go through Sumeria on the way.
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  Eventually he came to the Sumerian village of Sikka, near
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  the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
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  Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired from the long walk,
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  sat wearily beside the well about noontime.
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  Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to
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  her, Please give me a drink. He was alone at the time because
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  his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.
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  The woman was surprised, for Jews refused to have anything to
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  do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, You are a Jew
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  and I am a Samaritan woman, why are you asking me for a drink?
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  Jesus replied, If you only knew the gift God has for you and who
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  you were speaking to, you would ask me and I would give you
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  living water. But Sir, you don't have a rope
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  or a bucket, she said. And this well is very deep.
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  Where would you get this living water?
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  And besides, do you think you're greater than our ancestor Jacob,
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  who gave us this well? How can you offer better water
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  than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?
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  Jesus replied. Anyone who drinks this water
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  will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I
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  give will never be thirsty again.
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  It becomes a fresh bubbling spring within them, giving them
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  eternal life. Please, Sir, the woman said,
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  Give me this water. Then I'll never be thirsty again
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  and I won't have to come here to get water.
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  Go and get your husband, Jesus told her.
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  I don't have a husband, the woman replied.
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  Jesus said you're right, you don't have a husband, for you
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  have had five husbands and you aren't even married to the man
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  you're living with now. You certainly spoke the truth,
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  Sir, the woman said. You must be a prophet.
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  So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is
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  the only place to worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here
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  at Mount Gerizim where our ancestors worshipped?
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  Jesus replied. Believe me a dear woman, the
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  time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you
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  worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.
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  You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while
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  we Jews know all about Him. For salvation comes through the
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  Jews. But the time is coming.
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  Indeed, it's here now when true worshippers will worship the
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  Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those
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  who will worship Him that way. For God is spirit, so those who
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  worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.
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  The woman said I know the Messiah is coming, the one who
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  is called Christ, When he comes he will explain everything to
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  us. Then Jesus told her I am the
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  Messiah. Just then his disciples came
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  back. They were shocked to find him
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  talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask what
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  do you want with her or why are you talking to her.
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  The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to
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  the village, telling everyone. Come and see a man who told me
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  everything I ever did. Could he possibly be the
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  Messiah? So the people came streaming
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  from the village to see him. Meanwhile, the disciples were
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  urging Jesus. Rabbi, eat something.
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  But Jesus replied, I have a kind of food you know nothing about.
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  Did someone bring him food while we were gone?
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  The disciples asked each other. Then Jesus explained my
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  nourishment comes from doing the will of God who sent me and from
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  finishing his work. You know the saying, four months
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  between planting and harvest. But I say wake up and look
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  around. The fields are already ripe for
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  harvest. The harvesters are paid good
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  wages and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal
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  life. What joy awaits both the planter
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  and the harvester alike. You know the saying one plants
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  and another harvests. And it's true.
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  I sent you to harvest where you didn't plant.
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  Others had already done the work and now you will get to gather
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  the harvest. Many Samaritans from the village
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  believed in Jesus because the woman had said, He told me
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  everything I ever did. When they came out to see him,
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  they begged him to stay in their village.
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  So we stayed for two days, long enough for many more to hear his
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  message and believe. Then they said to the woman, Now
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  we believe, not just because of what you told us, but because we
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  have heard him ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed
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  the Saviour of the world. At the end of the two days,
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  Jesus went on to Galilee. He himself had said that a
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  prophet is not honoured in his own hometown.
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  Yet the Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem
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  at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he did
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  there. As he travelled through Galilee,
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  he came to Cana, but he had turned the water into wine.
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  There was a government official in nearby Katpernaum whose son
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  was very sick. When he heard that Jesus had
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  come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Jesus to come to
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  Capernaum to heal his son who was about to die.
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  Jesus asked. Will you never believe in me
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  unless you see miraculous signs and wonders?
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  The official pleaded. Lord, please come now before my
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  little boy dies. Then Jesus told him, Go back
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  home. Your son will live.
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  And the man believed what Jesus said and started home.
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  While the man was on his way, some of his servants met him
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  with the news that his son was alive and well.
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  He asked them when the boy had begun to get better, and they
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  replied. Yesterday afternoon at 1:00 his
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  fever suddenly disappeared. Then the father realised that
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  that was the very time Jesus had told him.
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  Your son will live and he and his entire household believed in
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  Jesus. This was the second miraculous
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  sign Jesus did in Galilee after coming from Judea.
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  Oh Jesus, you truly are the gift
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  that keeps on giving. Oh, you say here as you're
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  speaking to the Samaritan woman, that you give us this gift of
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  living water. Living water that we don't just
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  drink once, but that with you, your presence, and your Spirit,
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  it becomes within us a bubbling spring that will continue to
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  overflow all the way through to eternal life.
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  Jesus, thank you that you give us your spirit.
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  Thank you that you are a God of abundance.
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  Not just merely enough to scrape by, but Your love, Your grace,
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  Your presence is more than what we could ever need or desire.
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  And here you are, loving us, leading us day by day, providing
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  for us. Thank You Jesus, for giving us
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  Your spirit. Thank You for residing in us in
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  this powerful, palpable, daily growing living way.
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  Our Lord, make us keenly aware of Your presence in us, in our
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  lives. Every step that we take today.
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  Thank You that we are never alone, but we have you in us,
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  with us, through us, around us. Lord, may we live our lives in
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  You. And we pray all of this in your
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  incredibly present name, Jesus, Amen.