Changed Lives (1)

Here in John 4 we find Jesus stopping by a well and asking for a drink. What we find is that a discussion begins with a woman who has a less than straight forward past.
The first thing to note is that Jesus does not consider it inappropriate or unacceptable, despite her reputation and the fact that she was from Samaria, to ask this woman for a drink.
The second thing is that Jesus turns a simple, natural question, "give me a drink", into a searching spiritual discourse.
Jesus had insight into this woman's situation and recognised that she needed refreshing spiritually as much as he need refreshing naturally. We so often separate our physical well being from our spiritual well being when in fact they are so often intertwined.
When and if asked for a drink are we able to draw refreshing water from the wells of salvation or do we struggle to connect the natural with the spiritual or the spiritual with the natural? We need to be able to provide what is required when engaged in conversations, we need to be able to be life enhancing and not life inhibiting.
What Jesus does in this account is take the every day thing and spin out the spiritual truth. Jesus was concerned for this Samaritan woman, after all His mission was that ALL should be re-instated to a rightful place with God. After all that was his mission.
What Jesus indicated here in this encounter was that there is something that we can have here and now that will be like a fountain of water springing up in us to everlasting life John 4:14. The question is have we got it?