the Third Week after Easter
Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
John 4:1-18
It is not only for people who are held in high regard like Nicodemus that God gave His only Son. This marvellouss "gift of God" (v. 10) has been made available freely for the most despicable sinner. What a picture we have here! In His incomprehensible humility, the Son of God is seated on the side of this well, truly man, experiencing tiredness and thirst. And yet He thinks only of the salvation of the being He has created. A woman approaches Him; see how the Lord Jesus goes about gaining her confidence. He asks her to do something for Him and puts Himself at her level by speaking to her about something she knows. Desperate to find happiness, this woman had drunk deeply of the deceiving waters of this world. She searched for this happiness by having five husbands. She always thirsted again. But the Saviour draws to her attention "living water" of which He Himself is the source (vv. 10, 13, 14; cf. Jeremiah 2:13; Jeremiah 2:18; Jeremiah 17:13). She did not understand the nature of this but this Samaritan woman was moved to ask Him how she could receive this marvellous gift. However it is necessary for the Lord first to put the finger on what is not right in the life of this woman (vv. 16-18). For no man can be happy unless God’s light has penetrated his conscience. Grace is inseparable from truth as far as the Lord Jesus is concerned (John 1:17).
