Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will
be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never
thirst. Indeed, the water I give them
will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” –John 4:13-14
There I stood, alone at
the well. I was hoisting away at the
ropes. My dry hands were crackling and
popping, splitting like the dry, hot floor of the desert. My hands were blistered from pulling up heavy
buckets full of desert dust, hoping it would satisfy a tongue that was like an
edgy rock. As I was busy submerging my
palm into my bucket, a man came up to me.
There at the well, the man asked why I was drawing from a well that
would never satisfy. Why shouldn’t I
listen to him? Wasn’t he the same man
who told his follower’s to cast their nets on the opposite side of their
fishing boats? Didn’t these same
follower’s take his advice, and find themselves with plenty of fish on the bow
of their boat? The man, Christ, told me
to draw from another well. It’s a well
that quenches the thirsty and gives eternal life. There by the well, this man spoke to me. That day, I left that well. And now, I’m drawing water.