"Jesus answered, 'Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.' The woman said to him, 'Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.' He told her, 'Go, call your husband and come back.' 'I have no husband,' she replied. Jesus said to her, 'You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.' 'Sir,' the woman said, 'I can see that you are a prophet' " John 4:10-26 (NIV)
When Jesus left Judea heading to Galilee, He went through Samaria. There He met the Samaritan woman by a well and asked her for a drink of water. She questioned Him and during their conversation He told her that if she knew who He was, she would have asked Him for the living water that He could give her. Even though she did not fully understand she asked for that water. Jesus told her to go and get her husband and return. When she said I have no husband, Jesus told her about her past five husbands and her current situation.
Jesus knew all about the Samaritan woman's past and that she was living with a man to whom she was not married. He still offered her the living water of salvation. He also knows all about our past, including all of our sins, and still loves us enough to offer us salvation and eternal life. He had to tell the woman about herself before she believed. Sometimes He allows things to happen to us so that He can show us who He is and what He can do for us. He loves us and He wants us to be with Him, but we have to accept Him.
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