While on our missionary journey in Mozambique our friend, Pastor Banda, shared with us his need for water at his home. In the USA most of us do not have the experience of living in a home without running water but it is common in Mozambique and other developing countries in the world. Mozambique just gained their independence in 1975 and really did not become a democracy till 1993, so the USA has had a 200-year head start on development. Pastor Banda told us how his wife would walk long distances sometimes just to get water so her husband could bathe and they could cook. It reminded me of the story of the woman at the well.
In the John 4 story at the well a Samaritan woman has traveled to get water and meets a Jewish man named Jesus. She recognizes that Jews and Samaritans have no dealings with each other. But He still strikes up a conversation with her by asking her for some water and eventually he tells her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink’, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” – John 6:10. This living water is kinda like having access to water right in your own home. You don’t have to go anywhere and it never runs out. But this is only possible through a living Savior, Jesus Christ.