In 1981 a small cafe advertised this  special offer: “Buy one of our coffee mugs and fill up your cup for half the normal price each time you visit.”

But the owners never expected that 25 years later, four long-time customers would still be getting their cup of coffee every day—for half price.

You won’t find many deals like that anymore. But Jesus offered something far greater to the woman at the well (John 4:10). He said, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but . . . the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (vv.13-14).

The woman at the well was ready to listen. None of her many personal relationships had ever filled up her emptiness. Then Jesus offered her ‘water’ that would soothe her parched life and give her something more—the promise of eternal life.

That same promise is ours as well. Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

God’s grace and love come from a bottomless reservoir. Drink from the water He offers, and you will never thirst again.

Author

Cindy Hess Kasper

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