God: Do you know what insanity is? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. There are things in your life, you even think back to high school, that you have been doing that do not work in your life. But you go to these empty wells whenever you're hurting, when you're angry, when you're lonely, and tired, but they do not work!
Ever heard someone use the expression "just diggin' a hole"? Maybe you've seen that guy trying to recover from something stupid he said to his girlfriend, and in the end he ends up creating a deeper hole that the one he started with. If you've ever tried to cover up a lie, you've had to cover it with a lie, and that lie with a lie, and that lie with a lie. You started out with just a small hole, but you have created a well that is nearly inescapable.
The woman in John 4, an outcast of society, makes her way to the well in the heat of the day. Her sinful lifestyle, and carnal thirst has caused her to seek satisfaction in several different men. Just like the rest of us, she thirsts. Jesus approaches her about water, and says "if you knew who was asking you for a drink, you would be asking me for my water." This living water Jesus refers to causes an eternally quenches our thirst, because it is a living well springing up into everlasting life.
Just like "our father Jacob," we have dug wells that will soon dry up. In your thirst for love and attention, have you dug a well of pornography? In your desire for acceptance, have you dug a well of deceit? Maybe you have discovered a well of addiction and attempted to fill it with another form of earthly water, when right in front of our faces is the source of everlasting satisfaction.
We have reached the point of insanity. We have gone to the same earthly wells of addiction over and over and found no relief. In our search for water we have dug ourselves into a well that is now empty and desolate. The solution is so obvious! STOP! When we are hurting, angry, lonely, and tired, we must drink of the water that satisfies. Something this amazing sounds expensive, but it's not. Jesus offers it to you free today. What are you drinking?
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