Remember, Genesis 1 waters and the Genesis 2 waters form a combined statement of Yahweh as the master of the chaos waters, the one who can turn them into a source of life. Which means, when any story happens at a well or a spring it is a connect to creation, where God brings divine life.

Let’s go a little deeper under the surface of Scripture. What do we see with Jesus and the woman at the well? Remember, any reference to well or spring is a connection to divine life. I won’t read it all, but you can read the entire story in John 4. Jesus asks the woman for a drink from the well.

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to
eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” 16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17 “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

Do you see the tie to divine life through water? Living water, Jesus harkens back to the creation story and asks her, what is the source of life? He can see that her life is desolate, a wasteland, filled with loveless or hopeless relationships. She is thirsty for something more. And she recognizes that He is the source of life.

Where is this true in your life? Continuing to go back to places that are dry and barren expecting to see relief?

Sit with this song as a guidepost and encouragement to go towards God, the Creator with Divine intention to bring you life.

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