The woman said, “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this ‘living water’?  John 4:11 MSG¹

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One day, as Jesus was traveling through the land of Samaria, “wearied as He was from His journey, [He sat] beside [a] well … A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ‘Give Me a drink’” (John 4:6-7). The woman was shocked that He, “a Jew, [would] ask for a drink from [her], a woman of Samaria” (John 4:9). It was socially unacceptable. But Jesus was trying to get this woman to focus, not on the physical realm of life, but the spiritual. So, He continued, “If you knew the gift of God, and Who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water” (John 4:10). The woman, again physically focused, said, “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket” (John 4:11).

Imagine telling the One who created water and spoke it into existence, the One who could have, then and there, called forth a river to flow out of a nearby rock, that He could not come up with water. Imagine limiting the Limitless One to a bucket. But that is exactly what each of us does when we see only the physical boundaries before us.

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