No one likes arrogance. We are not naturally drawn to those who make themselves out to be something they are not. We avoid them and may be guilty of making fun of them behind their backs. So it is no wonder the woman at the well was skeptical. She saw a man with no bucket offering to give her water from a deep well (John 4:11). “Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well…?” (John 4:12). In our language, “Do you plan to make water out of thin air?”
Jesus doesn’t bat an eye. “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting” (John 4:13-14).
We can almost hear the sarcasm in her voice. “O.k.” Give me this water so that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.” She doesn’t understand him, but he has her attention.
Has God said something to you that you can’t make heads or tails of yet? Hold steady. Wait until he speaks again. He will eventually make it clear.
