Deer Park vs. Aquafina

Living in America, things are readily available to us, especially those which matter most... things like food, water, and clothing. The resources essential to our daily living can be found most anywhere and usually with endless options (admit it, most days, our biggest struggle is one of deciding on which restaurant to eat at). It hasn't always been that way for everyone. Sometimes I have to remind myself of that.

Today I was reminded of that. 

John 4. I used to think that maybe the reason that I was so drawn to this story is because the concept is was foreign to me, and the details are more like those from a headlining novel-it's simply something that doesn't have to be grasped, it's just good leisurely reading. It doesn't seem to prod my life and require much movement. Perhaps the fact that it's not something that I have to deal with on a daily basis, makes its fairy tail essence leave a sense of hope that lingers for others' sake. 

This morning I saw something different in the words. This morning I'm even more bewildered at His compassionate love for the human race, bar none. Just by a simple coversation with one woman years and years ago, He was able to show us so many things. He overstepped His boundaries in position, in safety, and in spite of other's jeering snarls just to love.

And the poor girl, she was thought she was just going through another run of the mill day. This was just another chore for her. Little did she know she would find and cling to real hope and love that day.

She knew thirst alright. Walking to a well suggests that she didn't have water readily available to her, and in vs 11 we know that it takes some effort to draw water up from a deep well. Water is heavy, too. I'm sure carrying buckets back to the house took a great deal of strength, and if nothing else it took sheer dedication. Needless to say, she had quite the struggle ahead of her just for a drink of water.

We are familiar with thirst too, despite our complicatedly convenient living conditions. Our thirst, though seemingly different from hers, is in fact exactly the same. We thirst for Him. We need Him. Our thirst and need for Him is great even today, and wether or not we identify that need as a need for Him now or later, it still exists. He should be our first stop on a daily basis; not as an obligating errand, but as to fulfill a desirable need. He desires to meet with us.

He spotted her physical and spiritual needs from miles off, in fact He anticipated them so much that He had already prepared a place on the cross to take care of them.

So when it comes down to it... brand-name bottled water has got nothing on Him.