"Fear God, Love God, Serve God": "He Knows All Secrets!"

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink? (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” Jesus said to her, “Go call your husband and come back.” The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus answered her, “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’ For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Anointed; when he comes, he will tell us everything.” Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking with you.”

(John, Chapter 4)

There are NO secrets with Jesus Christ! He IS all, knows all, sees all, and "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." (Psalm 139:8) Not a soul in earth can hide from Almighty God. So it was with the "woman at the well." Little did she know that when she arrived at the well that day that her life would never be the same after she met That Man. She knew about men, was well-accustomed to men, but This Man was different; This Man came to love her, not use her; He came to give her a love she had never known ... pure, holy, and undefiled. This Man was none like she had ever known. When He looked into her eyes; the look consumed her soul ... the "look" was Holy ...

"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken

me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns,

broken cisterns that cannot hold water."

(Jeremiah 2:13)

The people committed two evils: First, they forsook God, the ever- flowing fountain of Life, light, and love. Secondly, they hewed out broken cisterns: they joined themselves to idols, from whom they could receive no spiritual good. Clarke's commentary says it best, "Their conduct was the excess of folly and blindness. What we call here broken cisterns, means more properly such vessels as were ill made, not staunch, ill put together, so that the water leaked through them." It's a metaphor taken from springs, which never run dry; that's why they're called "living," because they never cease, but anyone putting their trust in anyone or anything other than Almighty God is a "broken cistern." The Lord Jesus Christ is Holy, steady, faithful, filling us and overflowing us with "living" waters, which quicken dead sinners, and revive the spirits, souls, and bodies of all who partake. The Lord Jesus Christ never leaves us nor forsakes us; people are fickle; idols are empty images; only the Lord Jesus Christ, who was born of a virgin, bled and died on a cross like a criminal, and rose again the third day, is Real and living within us, when we receive His Spirit.

"I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint."

(Jeremiah 31:25)

Ah, have you ever felt totally refreshed? Have you ever known or ever experienced a lifting of your spirit and soul as though you were soaring in gentle cool winds of glory and beauty? Have you ever felt clean and innocent, free, whole and unburdened? Have you ever known the feeling of pure holy love from above? It's the most wonderful thing you can imagine! It's called the infilling of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Almighty God living within you. When you are filled with His Spirit, you will speak in another language you have never learned, as His Spirit gives you the utterance, and it is Joy unspeakable and full of Glory! Then, when you are baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, you are FREE, you have become clean and innocent with all of your sins washed away ... you feel light as a feather ...

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst

for righteousness, for they will be filled."

(Matthew 5:6)

It's all about hunger and thirst. Hungry, thirsty people have no manners; they shove the crowd away, talk with their mouths full, grab at the food and drink with blazing greedy eyes and salivating lips; they lie themselves down prostrate on the floor, not caring who's looking; they abandon all inhibitions ... they want it, and they're gonna' get it! That's how we should be toward the God of the universe ... falling on our faces, crying out with insatiable hunger, reaching for Him with all of our hearts, souls, minds, and strengths ... He IS God, and we are but "dust," needing a Savior, needing redemption, needing forgiveness and love ... we're hungry and thirsty ... for Him.