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He comes alone when all other companions are off dealing
with the common needs of their day. Does He not have things to do? Why would He
interrupt His day with my concerns? Yet there He is in the midst of our daily
chores and needs. He comes and sits alongside us in the ordinary moment when we
are a bit overwhelmed and lost in the drudgery of the tasks and concerns demanding
our intention. There is a weariness to his look from all He has given to others
but somehow everything about His presence and being, completely focuses on us.
He looks into our very heart. Why does He concern Himself
with us? Our thoughts began to race, “There
must be more important people, than people like me.” Still here He is, the Holy
One with the most un-holy in each of us. At that moment, in the ordinary and
common, He gently asks for glass of water from each of us. Yet, a drink of water from us is not His
desire. The truth is; His request has nothing about life sustaining liquid but
with slowing us down enough to pause and consider the “Water” which will give
us “Life” at this very moment and flow freely with freshness and vitality without
ever ceasing in the ordinary and the common in every day.
We do stop with our tasks. Our concerns began to fade and dispel
into the compassion radiating out of His overflowing love. He draws us into His love, tenderly speaking
into our day with deep concern. He fascinates
us, while quieting our anxieties. He disturbs us as He delves deeper than
anyone has ever gone with His intimate knowledge of every one of our secrets. Still,
even here, He offers His insights, not judgments. The “Living Water” begins to
flow into our life …
Our time with Him continues and He shines a light deeper
still into our feeble attempts to say thanks.
He reassures us by pointing out that worship is not about a place,
heritage or even sacrifice. True worship
comes from adoration and thankfulness participating with the Spirit in praise
for God among us. God is indeed with us … He is “The One” sitting with us,
right now at the well of our need; alive midst our daily living. At this moment, we realize, we have again
found our “Messiah.” Be ever so
thankful, find joy as our Savior meets
us at the well in every one of our days. Take a good long drink again from the “Living
Water” that He gives by His presence as He listens and offers His love and
concern to every one of us.
“Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be
thirsty again, 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 4:13-14, NIV).
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