Daily Devotion, August 26, 2021

 

Devotion:

Read John 4:19-24.

In today's verses we find Jesus in conversation with a Samaritan woman at a well. While she is there to get water; he speaks of living water that provides eternal life. Jesus was very intentional about traveling through Samaria as most Jewish people avoided the Samaritans. She recognizes that he is a prophet of the Jews and tries to argue where worship should be. Jesus said it's not about where but about who is worshiped. John 4:23 tells us “Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for.”  The call is to worship God in the Spirit and in truth. The Spirit gives us faith in God and scripture gives us the truth about God so that we can know the God we worship. Being spiritually disciplined enables us to worship by knowing who God is, as well as who and whose we are.

When Jesus asked the Samari­tan woman for a drink, she noticed that he didn’t have a container to draw water with. But as it turned out he wanted to give her the water of eternal life. She listened and grew to believe in him, and she became the container for his life-giving message. Similarly, we are the containers that Jesus wants to fill. Jesus shows up in places where we least expect to find him, and he shakes up our thinking just as he did for the Samaritan woman.

Personal Worship Option:

Dear God, may we be nourished by your water of eternal life. Give us the courage to let you fill us with your love, that we may understand the impact of living for you. We need your Spirit to teach us the truth about you and to inspire our worship, for Jesus’ sake. Amen.