The
United States has spent millions of dollars looking for water on Mars. A few
years ago, NASA sent twin robots, Opportunity and Spirit, to the red planet to
see if water was present or had been present at one time. Why did the US do
this? The scientists who are poring over data sent back from those two little
Martian rovers are trying to figure out if life ever existed on Mars. And for
that to have happened, there had to be water. No water, no life.
Two
thousand years ago, a couple of “rovers” set out across the countryside of an
Earth-outpost called Samaria looking for water. One was a woman who lived
nearby. The other was a man from Galilee. They ended up meeting at a well near
the village of Sychar. When they did, Jesus found the water He was looking for,
and the woman found the water she didn’t know she needed (John 4:5-15).
Water is
essential for both physical and spiritual life. Jesus had a surprise for the
woman at the well. He offered her the Water of Life—Himself. He is the
refreshing, renewing “fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14).
Do you
know anyone looking for water? Someone who is spiritually thirsty? Introduce
that person to Jesus, the Living Water. It’s the greatest discovery of all time.
Only God,
can satisfy the thirsty soul. (RBC)
