John 4 Starter notes

Jesus cross lines that had been drawn between people based on prejudices, social status, economic differences,

Spiritual thirst and H20

V15 - The Samaritan woman did not understand the meaning of what Jesus was offering her. She was mixing up the physical with the spiritual. Would having “Living Water” keep her from coming to the well to draw water? Or quench her physical thirst forever? No!

It’s easy to see how she was mistaken from this side of the story. We may not make this mistake but we do mistake a spiritual hunger for the want for the physical.

Jesus was not talking about physical thirst He was talking about spiritual thirst. He was touching on what this woman (and each of us) need most but also struggle with. TRYING TO QUENCH our spiritual need with physical wants.

Like the Samaritan woman people try to find fulfillment (and the enemy offers it as a better option) in everything the world can offer for filling in the gap in our hearts.

Perhaps this woman tried to fill her spiritual hunger with fulfillment through relationships. (Sometimes relationships deteriorate because they cannot take the weight of being complete fulfillment for one of the people in it. So the one seeking to be completely fulfilled with a relationship will try relationship after relationship thinking the next one will work.) We cannot know for sure with this woman.