Today's Bible reading is the 4th chapter of the Book of John. You can read it here at Bible Gateway: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%204&version=NASB

The fourth chapter of John's Gospel begins with the account of Jesus meeting the Samaritan near the city of Sychar at Jacob's well. The text tells us that Jesus was "wearied from His journey", having been traveling from Judea to Galilee and He was sitting by the well. I'm certainly not disputing that Jesus was there because He was weary and perhaps needed rest and water. He partook of flesh and blood. But another reason why He is there this day and at this time is to have an interaction with the woman from Samaria who comes to the well to draw water while Jesus is there. Although we read that the Jews have "no dealings with Samaritans" we see Jesus graciously engage the woman in a conversation by asking her for a drink. It is quickly apparent that the woman is taken back by His willingness to speak with her. Jesus then turns the discussion away from His request for a drink of water from the adjacent well, to His ability to provide "living water". The woman then questions whether or not this man she is speaking with (Jesus) is greater than Jacob. She points out that Jacob is the one who had provided the well and that Jacob himself, his sons and his cattle had all drank from it. Jesus, again speaking of the physical need for water, says that "everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again" and then again, speaking of the spiritual, says, "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." What a promise. When we drink of "the water" Jesus gives, that which is spiritual, we thirst no more because "the water" He gives actually becomes its own "well of water springing up to eternal life". As a believer in the Lord Jesus, I need no longer search for a well to drink from. I have the well within me.There are still places in the world where a community well provides safe drinking water for a host of people. This is the case in an area of Uganda where my home church has been privilege to have a part in ministry. There is a well that provides safe drinking water for over a thousand people in the surrounding villages and they have recently been able to see the health benefits the well has provided. But similar to the lesson we see Jesus teaching, those who are ministering to the people in Uganda have a desire for the people there to drink of the water which Jesus gives; that which becomes a "well of water springing up to eternal life" for all who believe in Him.