Taken from a sermon by Bryant Wright, Founder, RFTH

“When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, ‘Will you give me a drink?’ (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.’ “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” 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.’ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
John 4:7-15

Amid our daily journeys, divine appointments await us—moments orchestrated by God Himself for encounters that will change the course of our lives.

Just as Jesus had to pass through Samaria to meet the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4, so too does He traverse the landscapes of our hearts to meet us in our moments of thirst for meaning and purpose.

We often find ourselves parched in the desert of worldly pursuits, seeking fulfillment in the mirages of material possessions and temporal pleasures. Yet, in these moments of spiritual thirst, Jesus sits by the well of our souls, offering us the living water that satisfies our deepest longings.

Like the Samaritan woman, we may initially be oblivious to the spiritual riches that Jesus offers, preoccupied with the concerns of this world. But His divine appointment with us is not hindered by our ignorance or resistance. He patiently engages us in conversation through His Word, gently leading us from ignorance to revelation, from darkness to light.

As we reflect on the Samaritan woman’s encounter with Jesus, let us recognize the divine appointments woven into the fabric of our own lives.

May we be attentive to the prompting of the Holy Spirit, who leads us to the wellsprings of living water where our souls find true satisfaction in Jesus.

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Read “What is a Divine Appointment?” at GotQuestions.org