In the Gospel, the Samaritan woman goes for water to quench her thirst. Jesus too. It’s midday! Recall that a few months later Jesus will say at the same time that he is thirsty. It will be from the top of the cross.
Father Cesar Augusto, SJ Vatican News
When everything in our life is going according to our wishes, we are happy, content and sane. But it only takes something that wasn’t planned, or rather, something that we relied on is missing for our joy to disappear and we start to doubt everything, including the person who provided us with those goods and continues to make it available. So it was with the Jewish people after the liberation of Egypt.
When they went to the promised land, the water ran out. The response was such that they forgot the miracles the Lord had worked on their behalf and even came to distrust God’s faithfulness. Despite this attitude, the Lord continued to do good to the people and provide them with water.
At this moment we can examine our lives with conscience. The Lord has given us life, nourishment, family, health, and a variety of goods, spiritual and material. What is our behavior when something is missing? Do we continue to feel that we are the center of God’s love, or do we forget everything He has given us and only pay attention to what we lack?
In the Gospel, the Samaritan woman goes for water to quench her thirst. Jesus too. It’s midday!
Recall that a few months later Jesus will say at the same time that he is thirsty. It will be from the top of the cross.
The Samaritan woman listening to Jesus says she wants the water he is offering her so that all her needs will be met and she no longer has to go to the well. Jesus continues the conversation and the Samaritan woman, understanding his suggestion, makes a qualitative leap and wishes for the living water that will not satiate her finite desires, but that which will satiate her desires for eternity. He speaks of the new life he will give us through his death and resurrection, which we accepted in the baptismal waters.
São Paulo, in his Letter to the Romans, tells us that the satiation we long for is a gift from God that we are already enjoying here in this life, it is the gift of the Holy Spirit, the love of God that is in ours heart was poured. This is the water that fills us up, without which we cannot live.