Joyfully, you will draw water

‘Look, He is the God of my salvation

“ Look, He is the God of my salvation

I shall have faith and not be afraid,

For Yahweh is my strength and my song,

He has been my salvation’

Our God is a faithful God and abides by His word. He has promised never to leave us or forsake us. In times of health or sickness, poverty or wealth, He abides with us still.

The verse above is Isaiah 12:2. A familiar passage, perhaps worded a little differently in the New Jerusalem Bible … but it rings true how many times has our Lovely Lord made haste to come to our rescue. Even an ordinary little life, like mine has proved this to be the case. When I have called, He has heard, and that is my testimony.

‘Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of salvation ‘

Once, and truly upon a time, the Lord Jesus tired by his journeying came to a well and sat himself down to rest. The well was deep, He had no bucket or water jar. The water looked cool and inviting to a weary thirsty soul.

Yes, that’s right, our Saviour knows what it is- to feel weary and thirsty. God when coming to abide with us knew what weariness, thirst and hunger were. So when a woman from the town came along to draw some water, He asked for a little help, a drink of water.

‘Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of salvation ‘

Read the story for yourself in John’s Gospel ch. 4

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 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.[a])

10 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.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 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?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 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.”

‘Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of salvation ‘

As we go through life there will come opportunities for drawing water for thirsty souls just as the Samaritan woman did for Jesus. Use your water jar.. share your testimony she did with great success verse 39 in the same chapter tells us that many Samaritans in her town came to believe, and to trust in Jesus because of her words of testimony.

And Jesus?

Well Jesus, gave His words of testimony of the things Our Father did and said, all the time.

“I was born for this, I came into the world for this, to bear witness to the truth” (John 18; 37)

‘Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of salvation ‘

Amen Lord, So let it be.

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