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)
