At the heat of the day, as usual the Samaritan woman walked to the well. She was walking with that empty vessel for many years. That empty vessel describes clearly the state of her heart. With an empty heart, as she was running to have her thirst quenched, only leading to aggravated thirst; nothing else happened. It is many years since she started walking with that empty vessel for six men.
But, today as opposed to the usual, there is a Jew sitting by the well. The conversation which ensued while she was filling her empty vessel, led her heart to the fountain of living water, and there all her thirst was completely quenched. As she received a new heart and new feet, she ran back to her village with feet like that of a deer. But before that she left that vessel there. As a replacement she received a filled heart. There she received her perfect spiritual bridegroom, purely by grace.
Centuries before, Rebecca carrying a vessel on her shoulder to the well was definitely blessed. For, she received Isaac the son of Abraham as her bridegroom.
But, the Samaritan woman who had lost all the hopes in her life received the saviour and the creator of the world, the Christ as her bridegroom. Emptiness is over; there is no more loneliness now.
The experience the deer which was seeking the streams of water; that same experience...
Prayer: Lord Jesus, fill my empty heart as you join it to your heart which is the fountain of living water. Amen.
Song: “I come as a deer
Water streams I search
O Love, never emptying Love,
I come with an unquenchable thirst”
Praise the lord
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