Welcome to Drawing From The Well.

Over the years I had begun to see my Lord Jesus in images of water – as a rushing river, speeding along over all the river stones, teaming with life, sometimes carrying me along in the roaring flow – deep, cool, green and frothing with white clear wash. I had also begun to see Him as a deep unfathomable ocean – vast, majestic, all-powerful and beyond me altogether. I had also begun to see my Lord as the cool springs, trickling along in shallow pools – gentle, refreshing and healing, in which I could paddle and from which I could drink, providing peace and refreshment.

Then, one morning as I sat in silence with Him I began to see the Lord Jesus as a well.

I imagined the women in the bible who so often met thirsty, weary travellers at a well. In the Old Testament, we read of Rebekah meeting Isaac’s servant at the well where she gave him and his camels water to drink.  Jacob met Rachel at a well where she came to water the sheep. Zipporah met Moses at a well where she and her sisters drew water for their father’s flock.

In the book of John in the New Testament, we read that beautiful account of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. Jesus spoke these extraordinary words to her; “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”…

In this time of quietness with my Lord Jesus, I believe He was showing me that He is this well and that we, the church, are like those women.  He simply calls us to go to the well and then to draw from it. We draw from the well by partaking of His life. The Lord Jesus in all His wisdom and tenderness, was showing me that the simple act of going to and drawing from the well, is all that He requires of us. Once we draw from the well, we have water to drink for ourselves and water to offer others. 

I saw that we don’t have to dig the well, we don’t have to make the bucket, jars or ropes. We don’t have to set up or manage the pulling system. We don’t have to advertise the well or make fancy tupperware to use. We don’t have to set up a stall or mix anything with the water to improve it. We are invited simply to go to the well and draw from it. A simple act of intimate time with Him. This is living out of the Lord’s in-dwelling life.

By drawing from His well, we have something to give to the thirsty. We have something to give to the weary stranger and something to give to our Father’s flock. That something, is Him.

The mission of this blog is to offer a greater view of Jesus Christ and therefore to support and encourage those who believe there has to be more to the Christian life than what they have experienced.

For those who are spiritually thirsty and weary, I hope that by resting here for a while your thirst will be quenched and your souls rested. 🙂

Who will drink from it? Whoever is thirsty.