Sometimes we do not grasp how empty and unhappy we truly are until we find real deep joy and peace and satisfaction. This is the story of the woman at the well in John chapter 4. To many she was 'just' a Samaritan women but to the Lord Jesus she was the sheep, the soul He was seeking for, searching for until He found her. At Jacobs well, connecting back through the centuries of time to the age old prophetic expectation of a coming Saviour and Messiah, Jesus meets her at a well. Here would be a place of not only physical water and satisfaction but the spiritual satisfaction and joy that had been meissing from her life for years. With a personal encounter with Jesus she not only heard God speak into her life but God Himself in Jesus stepped into her life revealing everything about her.
Dr J Stewart Gillespie