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Devotions - John 4:42
John 4:42
"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."
"Living Water"
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In John 4 Jesus meets a Samaritan woman, who is drawing water at
Jacob’s well. In conversation he tells her that he could give
her “living water, which she misinterprets to be what we might call
“running” water. Jesus’ “living water,” however, will be “a spring
of water gushing up to eternal life.” Water is essential to life,
and Jesus is saying that he can provide what is far more fundamental
than H2O. Jesus visited in the woman’s city, and many of the
people there came to “know that this is truly the Savior of the
world” (v. 42). Jesus took the most everyday experiences to point to
the most basic realities of life.
Contributed by Kerygma author James A. Walther, Sr.