She woke up but she didn't want to. She had been having her favorite dream. In it she was a wife and mother, she was loved and respected. She was awake now. It was hot and there were chores to do. In her dream she was loved and respected but in her reality she felt a deep since of failure and shame. It was late, she was thirsty, her escape of sleep would have to wait till later.
The book of Isaiah says," He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sickness." Throughout the Scriptures I see Jesus healing by reaching out His hand and touching the one who is sick. When the leper came to Jesus in Mark 1:40 he knelt before Jesus and said," If you will, you can make me clean." Jesus was moved with compassion and He reached out and touched him and said," I will, be clean."
Blindness, deafness, leprosy, these were not the only infirmities Jesus bore. There is also an infirmity of the heart and a sickness of the soul. It is often hidden from the eye but it cripples just the same.
When she reached the well she saw him there. She was startled when he asked for a drink. Jews didn't talk to Samaritans. Then he offered her the gift. He said," 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." She was intrigued," Sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."
She was surprised when he told her to get her husband. She replied honestly,” I don’t have one.” That’s when his words touched her wounded soul. “You are right in saying, ’I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” That was to personal so she asked a question about religion. However, Jesus kept it personal when he referred to God as Father. “The Father’, said Jesus,’ is seeking people to worship him in spirit and in truth.”
Her heart was pounding now she could hardly form the words,” I know the Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her,” I who speak to you am he.” Her wounded soul was touched. Her thirst was quenched.
Lord Jesus, you know my wounded thirsty soul as well. You alone see the hidden hurts your word reaches in to touch what only you can see. Your words of truth bring healing and the refreshment of living water.
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