DAY 15
And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary,
there they crucified him, and the malefactors,
one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished,
that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith,
I thirst.
Luke 23:43/John 19:28
Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey,
sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water:
Jesus saith unto her,
Give me to drink.
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him,
How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me,
which am a woman of Samaria?
for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus answered and said unto her,
If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee,
Give me to drink;
thou wouldest have asked of him,
and he would have given thee living water.
The woman saith unto him,
Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with,
and the well is deep:
from whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well,
and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her,
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinketh of the water
that I shall give him shall never thirst;
but the water that I shall give him shall be in him
a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman saith unto him,
Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not,
neither come hither to draw.
Jesus saith unto her,
Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
The woman answered and said,
I have no husband.
Jesus said unto her,
Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
For thou hast had five husbands;
and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband:
in that saidst thou truly.
The woman saith unto him, Sir,
I perceive that thou art a prophet.
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain;
and ye say,
that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Jesus saith unto her,
Woman, believe me,
the hour cometh,
when ye shall neither in this mountain,
nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Ye worship ye know not what:
we know what we worship:
for salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour cometh, and now is,
when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God is a Spirit:
and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The woman saith unto him,
I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ:
when he is come, he will tell us all things.
Jesus saith unto her,
I that speak unto thee am HE.
The woman then left her waterpot,
and went her way into the city,
and saith to the men,
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did:
is not this the Christ?
Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
John 4:6,8-30
DAILY REMINDER
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, 
and have not LOVE, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of
prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I
have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,
and have not LOVE,
I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not LOVE, it profiteth me nothing.
LOVE suffereth long, and
is kind;
LOVE envieth not;
LOVE vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not
easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three;
but the greatest of these is LOVE.
And from Jesus Christ, .... Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
1 Corinthians 13:1-5,13/Revelation 1:5
"It is of little use to try to reform
others by attacking what we may 
regard as wrong habits.
Such effort
often results in more harm than good.
--In His talk with the Samaritan
women, instead of disparaging Jacob's well, Christ presented something
better.
--This is an illustration in the way in which we are to work.
We must offer men something better than what they possess, even the peace of Christ which passes all understanding.
--This is an illustration in the way in which we are to work.
We must offer men something better than what they possess, even the peace of Christ which passes all understanding.
As the past of her life was spread out before her, the listener trembled. Conviction of sin was awakened. She said, “Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.”
And
today there are thirsting souls sitting close by the living fountain.
But they are looking far away from the well that contains the refreshing
water, and, though told that the water is close by, they will not
believe.
Earth's
cisterns will often be emptied,
its pools become dry;
but in Christ
there is a living spring
from which we may continually draw.
However
much we draw and give to others, an abundance will remain. There is no
danger of exhausting the supply.
The woman of Samaria is representative of the great majority to whom the word of the Lord comes.
Earthly things engross the mind to the exclusion of the things which belong to our peace.
The Lord is anxious to reveal Himself to us, but any trifle suffices to turn us away from listening to His voice."
Ministry of Healing p.156,157 E.G.W./Signs of the Times 1/22/1897 E.G.W./John 4/EJ.Waggoner
Closing Thought for the Day
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
In the midst of the street of it,
and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:1,2
