Not Gatorade, it's eternal made! Pt. 3

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.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

This section of the passage shows how lost the Samaritans are with their relgion and the things they believe. Remember that the Samaritans at one time were a Jewish group, until the Assyrian invasion and they became refugees in their own land, then becoming a misled region of people away from their Jewish roots and heritage. Jesus in these verses is straight froward with her about who he is and what he can do for her, yet she misses the vital part that he is refering to himself. The woman questions Jesus, asking about him having a bucket to get water and they questions his authority. She questions his authority, his greatness, his ability to provide the very thing he came to give us all; eternal life. Jesus doesn't become upset or agrravated by the woman's inquiries, but simply continues explaining further about the spring of water leading to eternal life. It's not actual water that Jesus is talking about, but the message of eternal life he has brought to save all of mankind.

In verses 13-15, Jesus gives the Samaritan woman instruction that if she drinks the water she too can have a "spring of water welling up to eternal life." Jesus tells her of his exact mission to do so and not a moment later she is asking for the water, but she still doesn't understand. The Samaritan woman, just like Nicodemus in chapter 3 doesn't realize that Jesus is speaking figuratively, not literally. She is interested in the water so she won't have to make the one and half mile trek to the well everyday to retrieve water. She wants an easy way out of the miserable chore of facing the burning sun everyday to fetch water.The woman is thinking of the here and now, but Christ is thinking of future....forever. Being a follower of Jesus is more than cutting out the "walk to the well," and the tedious chores of our day to day lives, it is about gaining eternal life!