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If we are not allowing Jesus to meet our deepest needs on an ongoing basis, then we are like the lady at the well.

Are you an emotional eater? Do you often drink alcohol to soothe a deep emotion? Maybe you spend endless hours watching television or surfing the internet. Maybe you exercise excessively. Do you have a habit of shopping for clothes even though you don’t really need them? Are you in and out of illicit relationships? Maybe it’s something else that you do to feel ‘satisfied’ or to meet the deep, deep need you have to be in a relationship with your Creator.

The woman at the well in John 4 symbolizes a person who attempts to meet a deep spiritual need in ways other than how God can meet them. She goes to a well to draw water but at a deeper lever she has a need for a touch from Jesus. So, the water represents our food, illicit sex, drinking, shopping, gaming, etc.  These and other behaviors we engage in, can be our attempt to meet a need that is really a spiritual need, deep inside. Until the woman meets Jesus, and he makes her need clear to her, she may have been unaware of her spiritual need in a conscious sense.

Maybe you feel emotional pain, or hopeless or a deep yearning that you can’t put your finger on. But, you find yourself going to your ‘well’ time and time again, only to be left unsatisfied or fulfilled.

Jesus desires to meet the deep need you have. Just as he ministered to the woman at the well, he desires to minister to you. You see, the spiritual water that he can provide is never-ending:

“Whoever drinks the water I give will never thirst.” John 4:14

When we choose to continually go to our spiritual well – to Jesus – then his spring of water bubbles up in our life in a way that quenches our thirst. Only Jesus can meet the needs that you might be attempting to satisfy in ways that don’t really work.

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