The Woman at the Well

I want to share with you something personal and something God is continuing to dig deeply out of my heart. From a young age, I have been a very needy girl. Growing up, I had many boyfriends. At that time in my life, my parents were divorced and I had very little supervision, if none. I went down the "boy crazy" road and it looked something like this. 

Every few months I started a new dating relationship with a boy from school. The relationship started out good, receiving lots of attention from the boy. Then after a month or two, the newness wore off and the boy would start distancing himself from me. In my little tender heart, I yearned for love. I wanted someone to love me forever, and in my heart I always believed the relationship would last.

Another messy break up would happen. I suddenly felt the neediness for another relationship. I am now a grown adult, married, with 2 children. Believe it or not, sometimes that same needy girl comes up in my heart towards my spouse. Let me say that my husband is a very kind, loving, affectionate man. I am honestly so very blessed to have him, and anyone that knows him would tell me I'm crazy for still being "needy" when I have all I "need". 

The truth is that being needy is something that is very very deep in our hearts. The needy girl in me will always be there, no matter what I have, until I completely depend on God to meet my every need.

In the story of the woman at the well, this young lady didn't realize she had a need. Here she was going from man to man, trying to find her happiness. When she met Jesus at the well, he asked her "how would you like to have living water? Water that never dries up?" Do you know what her response was? She said she would love to have that kind of water so she wouldn't have to walk back down to the well every time she got thirsty. She missed it in that part of the story. And how many times, and years have I missed seeing that God has been saying to me... "Come to me! I will fulfill your needs! Look to me! Nothing else!"

It can be almost overwhelming to think about the fact that even a 100% perfect life (which is impossible anyways) STILL won't not fulfill us. But it's a wonderful thought to know that Jesus CAN fulfill us. As we make a decision to cling to the Lord with all of our heart, He does an amazing work in us to change our heart. I truly believe as I grow in the Lord that this needy girl in me will become needy in the Lord and never "thirst" again...

"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 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

Guest Blogger

This week we had a guest blogger! She is a lovely young lady who is pursuing the Lord and a close friend of ours. She has recently shared her heart with us about something the Lord had opened her eyes to. She realized the powerful truth that our strength comes from the Lord and we cannot become or do anything without God (and the joy and peace that comes from it). She so graciously allowed us the privilege to share her email with you all too! Her email follows below:

So I have been reading this book called Dating with a Pure Passion and it has some great points in it that I would like to share! I found myself reading this one particular part over and over... It's so profound because I had never thought of it like this. It read, ”Jesus does not want to help you be patient, kind, or forgiving. Jesus wants to live His patience, kindness, and forgiveness through you.. “ Now I was like “Whoa!’ I was taken back by this! Then I asked myself, “What does that mean??” I pondered a lot on this... I could not even keep reading. I came to the conclusion that we cannot do anything without God. He does not want to "help" us do things.. He wants to be living inside of us and let Himself flow out of us in everything we do. Now I began asking myself some really thought-provoking, tough questions...Do I hold up the image of a ‘good Christian young lady..?’ or do I really, deeply let God flow out of me? Am I doing things that I know are right because I know they are right? Or am I doing them because I know it's pleasing to God?  I want people to see the goodness and joy that God has given me! I want to become a woman of God that can share and inspire others, especially the younger ones who look up to me.;) As we continue on this journey together, I ask that you please pray for me as I go along and cling to God and His Word! I know it will all be worth it!

What an encouraging email! It is such a beautiful thing to have true friends in the Lord where we can share these things with. We are so thankful our precious friend opened her heart, not only to us, but to all of you as well. It’s often when we find ourselves sharing the hard things like she did, then God will give us the strength and He will shine through us to bring Him glory and honor! We hope that this email will give you encouragement and hope in your relationship with God as it did us!

John 3:30 "He must increase, but I must decrease." 

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