I heard a story about a far west Texas ranch that consisted of over 38,000 acres and it only had one water well on the whole place. That 2,000 feet deep well was on top of a flat top mountain, and it had a pumpjack on it to pump water. The ranch hands listened for the motor that ran the pumpjack. If it stopped, they were on their way to fix it.

They say you can live 40 days without food but only 4 without water. That reminds me of something in the Bible. There was a lady in Samaria that had an encounter with Jesus at a water well about noon one day, (John 4:6-10). In their conversation Jesus mentioned living water but the Samaritan woman thought He was talking about water from the well. The Samaritan woman had been very unfaithful as she had been married 5 different times and all had divorced her because of her sin.

And even now she was living with a man that wasn’t her husband. Jesus can and will forgive anyone of their sins, (Romans 3:23, 6:23). If we will confess our sins and call upon Jesus to be our Lord and Savior. He will give us that living water, (John 1:12). Water we drink is very important, but the living water, forgiveness of sins, the new life in Christ Jesus is forever and way more important, (John 3:16, John 7:38, 10:10).

See you in Church next Sunday.