How Deep is Your Well?

I sure like it when I can just keep rollin’ on! This blog was inspired by yesterday’s blog where I spoke of our mission fields being right where we are at any given moment. It’s the one-foot square of humble, sacred earth beneath our feet. In other words, where we are is our mission field. It’s that place where if it’s just myself and no one else, it’s up to me to shine God’s light on ME! If it’s outside of me and my little space – that is the place where my light should be shining the brightest! But I don’t shine if my “well” is depleted – nothing there but dry, thirsty, and parched ground. My well must be filled up with living waters of hope, love, peace, faith, and trust in God Almighty.

Recently, in another blog, I spoke about my deep “well”. Sometimes, a deep well (figuratively speaking) represents a life-full of pain, suffering, heartbreak, and hopelessness. Often, we choose to hang out there way too long. I don’t go there anymore. I moved on from that well long ago. Now, I hang out at the abundant life well. Oh, so much better! My well stays full these days because I’ve been storing up those waters. Thank God, my well is deep! I love it when someone wants to draw from my “well”. There’s always plenty of water there to share.

Because I hang out with Jesus at the well, my well holds living water. It’s the same “living water” that Jesus gave to the Samaritan woman (John 4:4–42) and she never thirsted again. I, too, draw up joy, peace, comfort, hope, and strength. Like the Samaritan woman who had to go “tell” about this man from Galilee, I go and tell via my daily blogs and my every day life. I share with others about this Man Who not only promised her and me that He would be our everything, He also said “I am that Living Water. I am that Spirit. That Truth. That Way. That Life.” Many Samaritans from that city believed in Him because of the woman’s testimony. Thank God for social media that gets us to far more people today!

In those priceless moments that Jesus had with the Samaritan woman at the town well where she came to draw water, Jesus opened her eyes and heart to a love as she had never known before. She had a revelation of Jesus – the one who ignited a fire in her soul to go tell about it. I want to be like her! I want to “go and tell” about this Man who quenched my thirst. How about you?

“…..Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” John 7:37-38

How deep is your well?