He Gets Us: Questions Jesus Asked | Plan 3Sample

May I Have a Drink?

If you’ve ever wondered if God could really love you, then meet Jesus at the well.

It was a hot day. It was a hot topic. And it was an even hotter political world. And Jesus stirred it all together and served it up.

On that day, he sent his students into town to get lunch so he could wait for a woman who he wanted to talk with by himself.

Now no one goes to the well in the heat of the day, yet here she comes. We assume she is living on the bad side of a moral decision or was really downcast. Maybe she couldn’t deal with the other women’s chit-chat. Whatever the reason, this woman from Samaria was hurting and hiding.

So when he asked her for a drink, she probably thought Jesus was crazy. A Jew asking a Samaritan for kindness? That was a racial issue. And a man asking anything of a woman in public? That was a social issue. Likely they both knew that while Jesus might be thirsty, she was the one dying of thirst. She had made a mess of her life and didn’t know how to fix it. And it was killing her.

That’s when Jesus told her everything she had done in her search for love. Painful, private things. How do you know that? she demanded. He must have answered her without any shaming because, for the first time, she looked up and saw love. The real thing.

Jesus knows what it takes to satisfy a thirsty soul. Too often we think we only can be loved if we measure up. A woman may measure her worth, by how her body curves or doesn’t curve. A man, by how he ranks at work, the money he makes, or how tall or muscular he stands.

But Jesus offers love, not because we measure up, but because of who he is. On that day, She chose to believe Jesus was who he said he was. And so her story not only quenched her thirst for living water, it convinced the whole town—who knew her and saw her change —to follow Jesus, too. He invites everyone/anyone to the party—no matter who you are or how you hide - he says, ‘come.’