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“He who has ears, let him hear.” Matthew 13:9 ESV1

Read Matthew 13:10-17, Mark 4:9-13 & Luke 8:9-10

When you explain something to someone and he/she responds, “I see,” you know that person comprehends. When you share something from your heart and another says, “I hear you,” you feel understood. To see means more than having eyes that can visually discern something. To hear means more than perceiving with one’s ears a sound which is being made. When another seeks to understand or makes an effort to give us his/her full attention, we feel honored, appreciated, even loved. Eagerness to be understood isn’t a longing merely of humans; it is also a desire of the Divine.

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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

Read John 4:1-42

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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