Pray With Us: Living Water

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
‭‭~ John 4:13-14‬

It’s mid-July and summer is in full force. And it’s hot.  Like stay inside in the a/c all day and drink lots of water and eat lots of popsicles kind of hot. I imagine that’s the kind of day we find in the story about Jesus and the woman and the well. It was mid-day and hot, and Jesus was thirsty. Seems simple enough that he would ask the woman who was fetching some water to give him some as well. But what we might not realize is that a Jewish leader asking a Samaritan, let alone a woman who was by herself, for this favor was a big fat cultural blunder. But Jesus set rules aside, he wanted her to know who He was.

The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” (John 4:9-10)

They continue their conversation, the woman skeptical as to who Jesus is. But in the end Jesus reveals who he really is to her. The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” (John 4:25-26)

All the woman was doing that day was minding her own business and getting herself some water. But unexpectedly, Jesus showed up, and I am pretty sure her life was never the same again. One of the things I like best about this story is that Jesus continually reveals himself to people that society would deem ordinary, or even more, outcasts.

Mission U-Too is there to serve food and water to anyone who needs it…ordinary, outcast, or even extraordinary. But our heart’s passion is to share the love of Christ. We want people to be fed a meal, but ultimately we want them to know Jesus, to be changed by Jesus. No matter who they are.

We hope you will join us in praying for those that come to Mission U-Too are changed by the truth and love of Jesus Christ. That He is revealed to them.