The Miracle Drink

Nothing quenches a thist like the miracle drink from the faucet.  Such is what I have learned to call water since the day I watched it first come up from the deep well that brought it up from hundreds of feet under the surface of the earth. It was an amazing moment.  I am not sure what I was expecting. It was just amazing that the water came forth clear and ready to drink.  It needed no big expensive filtration system, neither did it need any additives to make it drinkable.  It was what it was and continues to be which is the best drink on the farm.  

The gospel of John tells us of another person who was surprised at the well.  The Samaritan woman whose story is told in the 4th chapter of John's gospel came to the well which provided water for her village only to find Jesus sitting there as if he might have been waiting on her to arrive.  Her conversation with Jesus changed her life and included an offer of Jesus she did not at first understand, but one she surely in the end gladly accepted, "The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.,"  Jessu said to her.  It was for her a miracle moment.  Unloved and a community outcast, Jesus gave her a love and acceptance she had never known and enabled her to know a joy and excitement she could not contain.     

What Jesus offered that day and what He continues to offer to all of us is inexhaustible.  When reading the narrative one of the things which stands out is His use of the word "gushing."  What a wonderful way to describe this water that washes over our souls, quenching a spiritual thirst thought to be unquenchable, and that rejuvenates us from brokeness to wholeness.  The miracle drink does not come from the well here at the farm, but from the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ.