Daddy Daughter Conversations

In John 4:1-41 Jesus gives a woman a life changing encounter with him. He meets the woman at the well. Now this woman is not a woman that Jesus should be associated with or even talking to, but he places himself in a position to ministry to those that seem unprivileged. In his conversation he talks to her about the topic of water… (And he should since he is at a well right?) Well this well is not an ordinary well, it’s the well of his ancestors. As Jesus continues to have this conversation, He then begins to reveal her to herself, as well as him to her. Isn’t it awesome when Daddy says to you, “come know me and let me tell you about you the good, bad, and ugly?” I think so, for him to take time out “his what we think busy schedule,” to have intimate moments with us is great to me. But going back to the woman at the well. After general conversation Jesus offers the woman water. I love it when Daddy offers us something that we think we have. I mean think about it the woman was already at the well prepared to retrieve water to drink, and here comes Jesus unprepared, asking for water, yet offering it at the same time. The woman at the well sees the unprepared Jesus and ask the one question (I think we all would ask if we were her)  “how can you ask for something when you are not prepared to receive it?” Hum that’s a lesson for us all… There are times we are asking Daddy for things when we are not prepared to even receive or even wise enough to handle. Let’s continue…Jesus gives a reply for his unpreparedness by saying that the water he has to offer doesn’t amount to what the woman came to retrieve. Daddy is always on top of his game he comes prepared even when it seem with the physical eye he looks unprepared. Jesus offers the woman him, and a relationship with  and the father by saying,“All those who drink this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring which will provide him with life-giving water and give him eternal life.” What a powerful way to let a person know that what they have truly been desiring is found in Daddy. I mean to know that this woman came to this well probably throughout her lifetime with her bucket, knowing the value of this water, and the water she really needs is found in waiting of a promise that she knows about. If you look through the scripture will see how she talk about the Messiah and Jesus says to her ” I am he who you are talking about.” In other words I am the Messiah in flesh, at the well waiting on you to receive me.” WOW!!! I would defiantly go that well…  Wouldn’t you? A well that would meet all my needs and even the needs that I knew not off and the manifestation of a promise that I only heard about. I doubt that the woman at the well knew she needed to be healed from the many husbands that she took on that weren’t her’s in the first place. I doubt that she even knew how thirsty her spirit was for the water that Jesus had to offer. And I seriously doubt that she knew that her everyday routine would yield the results of a life changing experience.

Prayer: Daddy thank you for the well, for we know that in you we will never thirst again. Thank you for the living water found through your son Jesus and the life of eternity that comes with it. Daddy so many times we find ourselves like the woman at the well, coming prepared to receive what we expect, and in return your will reveal areas that lack in our life that you are ready to heal and offer something so much greater than we expected.  Daddy we come to your well yearning for your water, waiting for your healing that we can share our testimony with others. We thank you Daddy that despite the issues of  our heart you are willing to offer your water to us. In Jesus Name. AMEN!