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September 30
Monday


DRINK LOTS
OF WATER

READ:
John 4:7-14
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Visitors to Colorado often become dehydrated without realizing it. The dry climate and intense sun, especially in the mountains, can rapidly deplete the body's fluids. That's why many tourist maps and signs urge people to drink plenty of water.

In the Bible, water is often used as a symbol of Jesus as the Living water who satisfies our deepest needs. So it's quite fitting that one of Jesus' most memorable conversations took place at a well (John 4:1-42). It began with Jesus asking a Samaritan woman for a drink of water (v.7). It quickly progressed to a discussion of something more when Jesus said to her; "Whoever drinks of this [physical] water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life (vv.13-14).

As a result of this conversation, the woman and many people in the village where she lived came to believe that Jesus was "the Christ, the Savior of the world" (v.42).

We can't live without water. Nor can we truly live now or eternally without the living water we receive from knowing Jesus Christ as our Savior. We can drink of his life-giving water today. __David McCasland

``````````````````Gracious and Almighty Savior,```````````````````````
`````````````````Source of all that shall endure,``````````````````````
```````````````Quench my thirst with living water,`````````````````````
`````````````Living water, clear and pure. __Vinal``````````````````````
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Only Jesus, the Living Water,
can satisfy the thirsty soul.

**************************Today's Bible Reading __ John 4:7-14******************************

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 o 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 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."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

By speaking with the Samaritan woman, Jesus broke ling-standing
religious, cultural, and social taboos. Jewish rabbis did not typically
talk alone with women, and jews certainly did not talk with
Samaritans (v.9). The Jews looked down on the Samaritans because
of their mixed Jewish and foreign descent (2 Kings 17:24-34). As an
impute people, they wee considered to be in a continual state of
uncleanness. for Jesus to drink from this woman's water jar would
be unthinkable. It made Him ceremonially unclean.