Which Well Are You?

Which Well Are You?

#1 No “My Way” — We can’t make our own way; we can’t make our own containers.

#2 Only by “God’s Way”— Now that we know we can’t make it on our own; we can make it through Him. We need to drop our “water pot” as the Samaritan woman did and take up God’s new vessel.

#3 No “Best Of Both Worlds” We can’t make our own water, we can’t be both, we can’t be friends of God and friends of the devil.

How many know you are you “well” tonight? I didn’t ask if you are well, but how many know that you are a well? It’s time to do some “water” testing, time to see if your well is full or if you have dried up.

Point One:  No “My Way”

People, by the sin nature, are selfish creatures who want to go their own way. I’ve been there, I’ve wanted to do want I wanted instead of God’s perfect will. We cannot go on our own resources, they will always fail us.

Jeremiah 2:13  says, “ For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.”

Israel tried to make it on their own, tried to find their own way instead of following the Lord. We won’t make it to heaven by this earthen vessels, our flesh can’t hold the living waters, we have to take on the new container—containers that won’t die out but that will last for an eternity. There is no making it on our own! Our “well” will only reap death.

Point Two: Only “God’s Way”

 Since we can’t draw from our own well, the only choice would be God’s!

John 4:6 says, “Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

4:7  A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

4:8  For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

4:9  Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

4:10  Jesus answered and said to 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.”

4:11  The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?

4:12  Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

4:13  Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,

4:14  but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.

4:15  The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

4:16  Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

4:17  The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’

4:18  for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

4:19  The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.

4:20  Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

4:21  Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.

4:22  You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

4:23  But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

4:24  God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

4:25  The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”

4:26  Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

4:27  And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

4:28  The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,

4:29  “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

4:30  Then they went out of the city and came to Him.

 

John 4:39 says, “And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.””

Jesus not only knew what was inside her cistern, but was able to reveal her cistern to her. We need the same; we need Him to show us our well, our cistern. We need Him to show us every point in our lives.

Just like in (Gen 26) where the Philistines stopped up Abraham’s wells, Isaac came along and dug that out. This is what the Holy Spirit wants to do to us; he wants to help our waters flow again.  

The Samaritan woman came to gathered water in her own means, but when she heard the truth, she left her “water pot” and went and told the people of the Man whom she had met. Once we have taken on that new container, people see a change in us, and we too can be a witness for God. We can be that testimony that God can use and change anyone.

Point Three: No “Best Of Both Worlds”

How many times have we all wanted the “best of both world”? How many times have we tried to do God’s thing, to make Him happy, but while still attempting to keep us happy as well?

James 3:11 says, “Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? 3:12,  Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.”

I know this is talking about taming your tongue, but it is true, we can’t expect to do our own way and follow God’s. We can’t be a double minded man; we can’t be of the Spirit and of the flesh and expect to prosper at anything. Like it says in,

Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

Galatians 5:17, “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.”

By being in a constant pull of the flesh and Spirit, we can’t be precise in anything that we do and we cannot be productive.

Picture two mason jar, imagine one empty and one. Now, say I took a water dropper and dropped one drop of water from the full one into the empty one. Tell me, what is the difference between the two?

The first is full, but how did it get that way? Drop by drop. Therefore, we can become more like God day-by-day or we can slowly slip away day-by-day, drop-by-drop…

So, which well are you? Are you drawing from your own water? Are you making your own container? Or are you drinking from the well of life? Or are you just trying to do both? Just trying to get by on what you know and what you think? Maybe you need to test your well?

2Kings 2:21  Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’”  22  So the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

Just like we said about Isaac cleaning out the well, the Holy Spirit wants to add salt to our well like Elisha did to the well and healed the water. Then all in our world can drink from all well plus it can be used to heal others, and we won’t be like the wells Peter spoke about, wells of no help.

2Peter 2:15  They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16  but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.  17  These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.