Living Water

Third Sunday in Lent

 


So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" (Jews do not share things in common 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." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?" Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!" The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us." Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to you."

Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you want?" or, "Why are you speaking with her?" Then the woman left her water-jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, "Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?" They left the city and were on their way to him.

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something." But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." So the disciples said to one another, "Surely no one has brought him something to eat?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. Do you not say, 'Four months more, then comes the harvest'? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I have ever done." So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there for two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world."

John  4:5-42

 

 

 

Details

    

Christ and the Samaritan Woman

BROADBENT, Stephen

1961

Chester Cathedral

Chester, Great Britain

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-displayindex.pl?SID=20140322186798095&pagenumber=4&code=act&

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christ is not a reservoir but a spring.

His life is continual, 

active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow.

If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain,

we shall either grow stagnant or empty.

It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.

~ A.B. Simpson

 

 

 

We never know the worth of water

till the well is dry.

~ Thomas Fuller

 

 

 

 

 

Carolyn Alexander with JAK

(Photo by Vicki Hall)

 

 

Joan Evashevski again entertained us

at Bunco on Tuesday evening.

 

 

Jackie McFarland and Jason at the Apple Store

 

 

Adrian Stone, President of the Board, and Steve Sumner, CEO,

hold the 2013 Non-Profit of the Year Award

for Center for the Arts Evergreen!!!!!

 

 

A very candid shot of our Afternoon Book Club having refreshments on Thursday

after discussing Circle of Friends, by Maeve Binchy.

 

 

Another interesting meeting at Rotary.

Collin Fitzpatrick, Mike Moore, Kay LaMontagne

 

 

 

Larry Zimmer

Our speaker at Rotary this week.

5-Time Colorado Sportscaster of the Year

 

 

Tammy Stortz guiding Barbara in our Memories in the Making

session at Life Care Nursing Home on Friday.

 

 

 

 

                   THE DISCIPLES

                                 

      Hurting, they came to him.

      Healed, they followed him.

      Grateful, they gave to him

            what they had and what they were.

      Blessed, they became a blessing

            and went out to all the world

                   in his name.

 

      Those who are hurt

            and healed

            grateful

            and blessed

      still move among us

            in his name.

                                                          by Ann Weems

 

 

 

 

 

March 23, 2014        Third Sunday in Lent

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:
     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

 

Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

 

    "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say"
               by Horatius Bonar (1846)
 
    1. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
        "Come unto Me and rest;
        Lay down, thou weary one, lay down,
        Thy head upon My breast."
        I came to Jesus as I was,
        Weary and worn and sad;
        I found in Him a resting-place,
        And He has made me glad.
        
        2. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
        "Behold, I freely give
        The living water; thirsty one,
        Stoop down and drink and live."
        I came to Jesus, and I drank
        Of that life-giving stream.
        My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
        And now I live in Him.
        
        3. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
        "I am this dark world's Light.
        Look unto Me; thy morn shall rise
        And all thy day be bright."
        I looked to Jesus, and I found
        In Him my Star, my Sun;
        And in that Light of Life I'll walk
        Till traveling days are done.

 

 

 

 

 

Exodus 17:1-7

Psalm 95

Romans 5:1-11

John 4:5-42