The following poem is one that I wrote a few months prior through the Lord and is based on the story from the Bible of the Samaritan woman that Jesus met at the well.
This woman was one who wouldn’t have expected a Jewish man to approach her, being that the Samaritans and the Jewish people were not on the best of terms. But Jesus met her anyway and even asked her for a drink of water.
The woman questions Jesus who offers her the living water that only Jesus can provide.
The world gives us all sorts of pleasures that run dry quickly and leave us only in want, wanting more. So it makes sense that the woman is excited about this living water as we should all needs be. And she asks Jesus where she can get some.
Jesus tells her to get her husband and we soon learn of this woman’s particular thirst as Jesus tells her that she has had 5 husbands and isn’t married to the one she is with. (John 4:1-18)
I wrote this poem when I was sitting down and thinking of meeting face to face some of the people in the Bible and what I would say to them.
This story holds a tender place in my heart for I can surely relate to this woman’s need for the living water only Jesus has to offer which I know so many of us desire and require even if we don’t always realize it.
My thirst for a long time was for love from men in particular but your thirst can be for anything the world offers that doesn’t eternally satisfy. Don’t worry we all have them.
It could be for money and wealth, drugs, food, pornography, men, women, love, likes, approval, perfection, success, a thin body, youthfulness, anything that this world offers that one can demand, pay for, or climb over others to get. Anything the world offers on which is written in invisible but tangible ink, “Will Thirst Again.”
I pray this poem blesses you today and you come face to face with something I pray we may all come to realize that the only water that never runs dry is the well of life offered up through the blood of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Samaritan lady at the well.
Do you know now that your knees are made for prayer and service to the one who created you in His image,
And not for servitude to the pleasures and whims of a man?
Samaritan lady at the well.
How did your life change after a week of meeting Jesus?
Were you able to give your life to Him and never look behind you like Lots wife did?
Were you able to drink forever from the Messiah’s living water forever once and for all?
Samaritan lady.
Here I am.
I am at the well.
I have tasted and found His water cool and refreshing too.
I have tasted and found it faithful and fulfilling.
But I have turned away.
Samaritan woman if you saw me at the well come morning and knew my story, what would you say?
What would you tell me so I am more convinced as you were that afternoon?
And more than ready to surrender my life and my body away?
In your sin He helped you.
In your sin He felt you.
A week later on, did He keep you?
Samaritan lady you were fearless when you confronted your neighbors who shunned you because of your sin.
You weren’t afraid to approach them to share Jesus with them who wasn’t afraid to approach you in the midst of the life He knew too, that you were in.
Samaritan lady I am more frightened than faithful.
I run to men that God has made, more than to the God that men should fear.
Was that what it was like for you?
I want to know my worth in the Lord.
I want to remember every morning and every moment of the day,
That my knees are meant for prayer and praise to the one who never tells a lie.
That my feet are meant to walk knowing that the God of creation is, by my side.
That my hands are meant for holding His word, in my hands.
That my lips are meant to speak His promises over my life and to encourage others with songs of His love.
That my eyes are meant for seeing His hand on everything in existence.
That my mind is meant to dwell on His death for me a sinful child of His and to think only on those things that are pleasing to Him.
My life has been surrendered all along to the wrong ones and to all the wrong things
How do I, how does one get their heart to sing a better tune?
Samaritan lady.
What happened when you went back into the house and to that room?
I like to believe that you never returned but looked forever, on the the one who was raised up from the tomb.
Father come to me like a Samaritan lady and tell me you know me and love me,
As before I was in the womb.
Help me to never thirst after those things that only lead to death’s door, and the gloom of doom.
Give me a heart of flesh for you and for your people,
May your kingdom, come here soon.
And help me to belong there,
Where for the righteous there’s always room.
Whatever it is that you’re chasing in this life that isn’t fulfilling I invite you to lay it down for I promise you that like salt water drunk straight it will taste good at first but only keep you thirsting for more.
Come to Christ. For He is the only eternal life in this temporal and fallen world. Like the Samaritan lady may your heart be excited to hear and to experience contact with the living water whose promise from here to forever, is that you will never thirst again! God bless you. Amen.
Facing Life In Christ 