Christ Church Daily Devotion Oct 10 2023

Jesus initiates a conversation with a Samaritan woman who had five husbands, breaking social barriers. He offers her living water that will quench her thirst forever. This story teaches that Jesus is concerned for all people, regardless of their background or choices. He offers healing and fulfillment to those who seek Him. In our own lives, we must recognize our attempts to fill our emptiness with worldly things and instead seek Jesus for true satisfaction. Welcome to Christ Church's Daily Devotion for October 10th, 2023. Today we will be reading from John chapter 4 verses 4 through 15. Now he had gone through Samaria, so he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon, when a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, Will you give me a drink? His disciples had gone into town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink? For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. Jesus answered her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. Sir, the woman said, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock? Jesus answered, Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to come here to draw water. Jesus wasn't concerned about hanging with the in crowd. In John chapter 4, Jesus initiates a conversation with a highly unlikely character, a Samaritan woman who had five husbands. Her gender made her culturally inferior, her race labeled her as one to be avoided, and her lifestyle choices marked her as one to be condemned. But Jesus ignored all the social barriers meant to separate them because his concern wasn't for appearances. His concern was for people, all people, hurting people, searching people, people who made bad choices, empty people, because that's all of us, right? In John chapter 4 verse 15, the woman refers to the hassle of returning to the well so often to quench her thirst. In the same way, she has repeatedly returned to the well of failed relationships to fill her emptiness, to quench her persistent disappointment. In John chapter 4 verses 13 through 14, Jesus offered to heal a hurt, the woman, and didn't even realize she had. Today, he offers the same for us. Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. John chapter 4 verse 14 While we stuff ourselves on what the world offers, money, success, relationships, sex, possessions, entertainment, the satisfaction is momentary at best. Jesus offers us peace, joy, love, in a relationship that is fulfilling. Jesus alone satisfies our every need, quenches our every thirst, lasts forever, and never disappoints. He approaches us in our current state and offers to meet our greatest need, the need for a Savior. Today's personal worship option. How have you tried to fill your own emptiness with the things of the world? Just like the woman found herself returning to the well to try and fill her thirst, what sins do you find yourself returning to in an effort to fill the void in your heart? How have you experienced Jesus' peace, joy, or love in your own life recently?