Lent Devotion | Day 30

John 4:25-26 (NIV)

The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

The fact that Jesus went to the well and met the Samaritan woman was a very interesting event. Samaritan citizens were looked down upon and were considered lower class. For Jesus even to be speaking to this woman was highly controversial. Not only was he speaking to her, he was telling her something life changing. 

As humans, we all thirst for living water which is what Jesus offered the Samaritan woman that day. It is only through Jesus that we are brought into a loving relationship with God and in this relationship, we find forgiveness, healing and purpose. It seems that the Samaritan woman was someone who was in need of the Messiah. When Jesus spoke to her, he told her that he IS the Messiah she had been looking for. She was thirsty, and not just for water, but for salvation and having her sin taken from her. She knew that he was not a prophet but her living hope.